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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Sent to investigate mysterious encounters that are disrupting international shipping, Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and disgruntled harpooner Ned Land are captured when their frigate is sunk during an encounter with the "monster." The submarine Nautilus and its eccentric Captain Nemo afford the professor and his companions endless fascination and danger as they're swept along on a yearlong undersea voyage.
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was warmly discussed, which procured it a high reputation. It rallied round it a certain number of partisans. The solution it proposed gave, at least, full liberty to the imagination. The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed.
The industrial and commercial papers treated the question chiefly from this point of view. The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, the Lloyd's List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted to insurance companies which threatened to raise their rates of premium, were unanimous on this point. Public opinion had been pronounced. The United States were the first in the field; and in New York they made preparations for an expedition destined to pursue this narwhal. A frigate of great speed, the Abraham Lincoln, was put in comm
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Of course, the film was better. But, by habit, we always like to read a bookso that we can compare our imagination with the film.
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Classic book and classic sci-fi. Most of its premises now seem a little ridiculous but Verne's writing compensates for that. Along with his great contemporary, Wells, they were the pioneers of early science fiction.
10/03/2010
Great book for those of you who like to read the classics. I have to say that to those of you who do not like the book due to the storyline you are either not a fan of science fiction novels or you are one of the many unfortunate products of a society that no longer takes into consideration that there was good reads prior to 2005. Sad.
08/05/2010
Amazing classic "science fiction" / adventure read. Great story, excellent characters. Perhaps Nemo is the worlds first environmental activist in his over the top possessiveness of the worlds oceans.
For those of you giving this book such low marks and bad reviews: Maybe you should put down the Harry Potters and Twilights and pick up an actual book every now and then.
For those of you giving this book such low marks and bad reviews: Maybe you should put down the Harry Potters and Twilights and pick up an actual book every now and then.
05/27/2010
I personally did not like this book at all, i had to read it for my science class and then do a fuve page book report on it. Its hard to write such a long book report on a book that was not interesting at all. It has to be one of the worst books ive ever read.
05/23/2010
an excellent book would I recomend it to any one
05/03/2010
This book had to be one of the worst books i ever read hands down for all of you that like it... what were u thinking??
04/23/2010
this is one of the best books ever. to those who dont like it, DID YOU EVEN READ IT!!!
04/21/2010
i personaly didnt like it but if i tried i propbly would have found it interesting it was really hard
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04/06/2010
just awesome............
03/13/2010
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