In an age that has seen the wildest speculations of science become reality, Jules Verne is regarded as both a technological prophet and one of the most exciting masters of imagination the world has ever known. Of all his novels, none is more compelling and thrilling than 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. This extraordinary voyage into the depths of the unknown aboard the legendary submarine Nautilus—commanded by the brilliant, tragic Captain Nemo—explores both the incredible possibilities of science and the twisted labyrinth of the human mind. The novel stands as science raised to the level of literature and remains a vivid expression of a new era of technological advancement and humanity's place within that world.
Table of Contents:
Translator's Note
Cast of Characters
List of Illustrations
PART ONE
- A Shifting Reef
- Pro and Con
- Whatever Pleases Monsieur
- Ned Land
- On an Adventure!
- At Full Steam
- An Unknown Species of Whale
- "Mobilis in Mobili"
- Ned Land's Temper
- The Man of the Seas
- The Nautilus
- All by Electricity
- Some Figures
- The Black River
- A Note of Invitation
- A Walk on the Bottom of the Sea
- A Submarine Forest
- Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific
- Vanikoro
- Torres Straits
- A Few Days on Land
- Captain Nemo's Thunderbolt
- "AEgri Somnia"—Bitter Dreams
- The Coral Kingdom
PART TWO
- The Indian Ocean
- A Novel Proposal of Captain Nemo's
- A Pearl of Ten Millions
- The Red Sea
- The Arabian Tunnel
- The Grecian Archipelago
- Across the Mediterranean in Forty-Eight Hours
- Vigo Bay
- A Vanished Continent
- The Submarine Coal Mines
- The Sargasso Sea
- Cachalots and Baleen Whales
- The Ice Shelf
- The South Pole
- Accident or Incident?
- Want of Air
- From Cape Horn to the Amazon
- The Squids
- The Gulf Stream
- At Latitude 47° 24' and Longitude 17° 28'
- A Hecatomb
- The Last Words of Captain Nemo
- Conclusion
Afterword
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