Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2)
In 1866, a massive sea creature is destroying ships across the world's oceans. French professor Pierre Aronnax, a naturalist whose life is devoted to classifying the wonders of the natural world, joins a hunting expedition determined to kill it. Instead, he and his companions are pulled aboard the Nautilus, an impossibly advanced submarine commanded by Captain Nemo, a brilliant man who has severed all ties with surface civilization. What follows is a year-long odyssey through the deep: coral forests and submerged ruins, whales and giant squid, the terrible grandeur of the ocean floor itself. But Nemo grows more militant in his isolation, and the Nautilus becomes both wonder and prison. Aronnax must decide whether to remain captive to genius or escape into uncertainty. Verne wrote this decades before the first practical submarine, and his prescient invention still startles. This is adventure as pure wonder, science rendered as magic. It is for anyone who has ever looked at the sea and ached to know what lies beneath.
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