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Jules Verne
The Giant Raft
"The Giant Raft" by Jules Verne is a novel published in 1881. When ranch owner Joam Garral agrees to travel down the Amazon River to Belém for his daughter's wedding, he must also confront a dark secret from his past. Pursued by accusations of a crime he didn't commit, Joam faces a sinister blackmailer who holds the only proof of his innocence—encrypted in a mysterious letter that must be decoded before time runs out.
Jules Verne
La Jangada: Huit cent lieues sur l'Amazone
"La Jangada: Huit cent lieues sur l'Amazone" by Jules Verne is an adventure and detective novel published in 1881. When Joam Garral's daughter prepares to marry in Belém, Brazil, the family embarks on an eight-hundred-league journey down the Amazon River aboard a massive raft. But the seemingly prosperous father harbors a mysterious melancholy, and a cryptographic message sets in motion unexpected twists. The voyage combines biological and geographical discoveries of the Amazon with suspenseful intrigue about Garral's troubled past and secret correspondence with a Brazilian magistrate.
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