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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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i loved this book i dont know how anyone can say it was horrible it is your own opinion. but in all i absolutly loved it!!!!!
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An excellent book. It is said to be Jules Verne's masterpiece.
To find out more about Captain Nemo, please read the book "The Mysterious Island"
To find out more about Captain Nemo, please read the book "The Mysterious Island"
11/22/2009
this story was horrible i wanted to die after the first 14 chapters i hate this book there was no point the book
10/23/2009
the very first novel that i borrowed in library when i was in high school...a superb novel...
10/19/2009
My favourite novel. Thanks
10/17/2009
This story is my favourite! Yahoo!
03/07/2009
Ok...
So, I read this book for a book report on a classic book. I had already tried Les Miserables and just couldn't get the hang of it. This book totally saved me.
This book is for those people who can think back to the 1800's when submarines weren't around, and we didn't know what was out there.
PS. Hey, Bonnie, Peirre Aronnax is FRENCH.
So, I read this book for a book report on a classic book. I had already tried Les Miserables and just couldn't get the hang of it. This book totally saved me.
This book is for those people who can think back to the 1800's when submarines weren't around, and we didn't know what was out there.
PS. Hey, Bonnie, Peirre Aronnax is FRENCH.
03/25/2008
I thought it to be better, I can't complain its a good book, but sometimes I just wished he stops talkin about food.
Its really worth reading on a full stomach.
Its really worth reading on a full stomach.
10/27/2007
I studied this book when i was at school.
It is very amazing one by Jules Verne.
It is very amazing one by Jules Verne.
10/17/2007
I was fascinated when reading this book. I think that Verne was so full of imagination that he could depict the undersea world as if he had seen it with his eyes! This book, though not a detective novel, holds readers' breath.
05/26/2007