20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
(eBook)

Jules Verne's classic adventure novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" has been hailed as one of the greatest literary achievements in science fiction for over a century. In this thrilling tale, our narrator - Professor Pierre Aronnax - sets out to explore a series of strange nautical encounters involving a gigantic underwater soon finds himself captured aboard an enormous submarine - the Nautilus - created and piloted by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. Nemo has created the Nautilus for a dual purpose: to escape the treacherous and doomed terrestrial world and to explore the vast depths of the endlessly fascinating ocean. Traveling across the globe and plumbing the deepest seas, the story takes the reader to various exotic underwater locales: from beneath the Arctic ice caps, to the ruins of hundreds of shipwrecks that litter to ocean floor, to the lost empire of Atlantis itself. While underwater exploration was still in its infancy, Jules Verne imagined a craft that was years before its time. His description of the Nautilus almost exactly mirrors the gigantic submarines that cruise the oceans today. A visionary and brilliant adventure story, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" - along with "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "Around the World in 80 Days" (to name but two) - is one of a series of Vernes' Extraordinary Voyages and is one of the finest science fiction novels ever created.