Professor Aronnax sets out in search of a dangerous sea monster, only to learn that the monster is really Captain Nemo's powerful submarine.
The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.
French author Jules Verne first published his classic science fiction novel in 1870. This is an unabridged version of the 1872 English edition, translated by Lewis Page Mercier.
A huge sea monster has attacked and wrecked several ships from beneath the sea.
This book takes the classic novels and retells it for modern readers as a beginning reader chapter book! The story tells of the adventures of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus in a way that beginning readers can understand.
This eBook edition of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
First Mate Shandon receives a mysterious letter asking him to construct a reinforced steamship in Liverpool.
'It is a ripping yarn, but it is also an eerie tale of isolation and madness ... with a compellingly Byronic central character' Guardian Combining thrilling adventure with scientific facts and a wonder at the natural world, Twenty Thousand ...
For many, then, this book has been a source of fascination, surely one of the most influential novels ever written, an inspiration for such scientists and discoverers as engineer Simon Lake, oceanographer William Beebe, polar traveler ...
Jules Verne was born in 1828 into a French lawyering family in the Atlantic coastal city of Nantes.
The central characters of the tale, in the process of exploring marine disturbances, are captured by the megalomaniacal Captain Nemo. An undersea tour in a strange craft and their ensuing escape conclude the work.