Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

A mysterious sea monster has been attacking ships. Professor Pierre Aronnax, the renowned French marine biologist, has been summoned. It<@146>s a giant narwhal, we think, Professor, says the United States Government -- a deadly kind of whale.

Aronnax summons master harpoonist Ned Land -- and his assistant, Conseil -- to join the expedition to stop this threat. Aboard the ship Abraham Lincoln they track the beast. The Professor and his team are thrown overboard -- and captured by the most famously tormented captain of all time, and his astonishing underwater vessel: Captain Nemo and the Nautilus! These indelible names echo down the corridors of science fiction, and will forever.

Experience the thrill of underwater mysteries! The strange world of sunken Atlantis! The famous giant squid! And finally, the unforgettable fate of Captain and ship in the Maelstrom.

Here in this nineteenth-century translation from the French is one of the greatest fantastic novels of all time, with all its period flavor.

A mysterious sea monster has been attacking ships. Professor Pierre Aronnax, the renowned French marine biologist, has been summoned. It<@146>s a giant narwhal, we think, Professor, says the United States Government -- a deadly kind of whale.

Aronnax summons master harpoonist Ned Land -- and his assistant, Conseil -- to join the expedition to stop this threat. Aboard the ship Abraham Lincoln they track the beast. The Professor and his team are thrown overboard -- and captured by the most famously tormented captain of all time, and his astonishing underwater vessel: Captain Nemo and the Nautilus! These indelible names echo down the corridors of science fiction, and will forever.

Experience the thrill of underwater mysteries! The strange world of sunken Atlantis! The famous giant squid! And finally, the unforgettable fate of Captain and ship in the Maelstrom.

Here in this nineteenth-century translation from the French is one of the greatest fantastic novels of all time, with all its period flavor.

A legendary French author and pioneer of the science fiction genre, Jules Verne wrote visionary tales of space, air, and underwater adventure in classics like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).