Is It Based on a Book?
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon book cover

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Movie · 1993

Is Fire on the Amazon based on a book?

Quick answer

Yes. Fire on the Amazon is based on the book Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne (1881).

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon is book 21 of the Voyages Extraordinaires series.

The movie was released in 1993.

The book behind Fire on the Amazon

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon cover

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon

by Jules Verne · first published 1881 · adventure fiction, crime fiction

1881 novel by Jules Verne.

Voyages Extraordinaires: books in order

  1. Cinq Semaines en ballon (1863)
  2. The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1864)
  3. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864)
  4. From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
  5. In Search of the Castaways (1864)
  6. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869)
  7. Around the Moon (1870)
  8. A Floating City (1871)
  9. The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (1872)
  10. The Fur Country (1873)
  11. Around the World in Eighty Days (1872)
  12. The Mysterious Island (1888)
  13. The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875)
  14. Michael Strogoff (1876)
  15. Off on a Comet
  16. The Child of the Cavern (1877)
  17. Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (1878)
  18. The Begum's Fortune (1879)
  19. Tribulations of a Chinaman in China (1879)
  20. The Steam House (1880)
  21. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (1881)
  22. Godfrey Morgan (1882)
  23. The Green Ray (1882)
  24. Kéraban the Inflexible (1883)
  25. The Vanished Diamond (1884)
  26. The Archipelago on Fire (1884)
  27. Mathias Sandorf (1885)
  28. The Lottery Ticket (1886)
  29. Robur the Conqueror (1886)
  30. Texar's Revenge, or, North Against South (1887)
  31. The Flight to France (1887)
  32. Two Years' Vacation (1888)
  33. Family Without a Name (1889)
  34. The Purchase of the North Pole (1889)
  35. César Cascabel (1890)
  36. Mistress Branican (1891)
  37. The Castle From Carpathians (1892)
  38. Claudius Bombarnac (1892)
  39. Foundling Mick (1893)
  40. Captain Antifer (1894)
  41. Propeller Island (1895)
  42. Facing the Flag (1896)
  43. Clovis Dardentor (1896)
  44. An Antarctic Mystery (1897)
  45. The Mighty Orinoco (1898)
  46. The Will of an Eccentric (1899)
  47. The Castaways of the Flag (1900)
  48. The Village in the Treetops (1901)
  49. The Sea Serpent (1901)
  50. The Kip Brothers (1902)
  51. Traveling Scholarships (1903)
  52. A Drama in Livonia (1904)
  53. Master of the World (1904)

Common questions

Is Fire on the Amazon based on a book?

Yes. Fire on the Amazon is based on the book Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne (1881).

Who wrote the book Fire on the Amazon is based on?

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon was written by Jules Verne and first published in 1881.

Is Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon part of a series?

Yes, it is book 21 in the Voyages Extraordinaires series (16 books listed below in reading order).

Should I read the book before watching?

Start with Cinq Semaines en ballon, book 1 of Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon. If you like knowing the full story and characters first, read it before you watch. Adaptations often change or cut plotlines, so the book is a different experience even if you've seen the movie.

More screen adaptations of Jules Verne's books

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