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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea.

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Summary:
A mission to rid the seas of a monstrous creature becomes a terrifying nightmare when Professor Arronax, Conseil and Ned Land are thrown overboard. The huge marine animal which has haunted the water is no living beast, but a spectacular man-made vessel and the three men find themselves the helpless prisoners of Captain Nemo. Resigned to their fate, they begin a miraculous journey on the submarine ship which can travel through waters never before explored. For the Professor, at least, this voyage is one he would not have missed for the world.

Jules Verne ( 1828 - 1905 ) lived and died in France, but developed an early passion for traveling. When he was eleven years old, he tried, rather unsuccessfully, to run away to sea. On his return home, he promised his mother that from then on would only imagine traveling - a remark that was to prove extremely prophetic.

In the early 1860s, an enterprising magazine editor liked an adventure story that Verne wrote so much that he gave him a contract to write similar stories were to be known as Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires. The rest, as the saying goes, is history.

Verne's stories were invariably fantastic adventures, but they were grounded by a high degree of realism especially in his descriptions of events and in his use of science ( which makes him one of the pioneers of science fiction ). Although Verne's research was thorough, he did occasionally make up a scientific " fact " if it suited the story, nevertheless, history has shown that he had an incredible sense of what was possible - because his imagined inventions have often turned out to be close to later real inventions. As for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, many of the submarine's details are based on work being undertaken at the time by the French government and by a friend of Verne's, Jacques - Francois Conseil ( whose namesake plays a prominent part in the book). The book was first serialized in 1869 and published in English in 1873.

Genre/Form:
Fiction
Science fiction
Translations into English
Tranlations into English

Contents:
Floating reef --
For and against --
As Monsieur pleases --
Ned land --
With all steam on --
Whale of an unknown species --
Mobilis in Mobili --
Ned Land's anger --
Nemo --
Nautilus --
Invitation --
At the bottom of the sea --
Submarine forest --
Four thousand leagues under the Pacific --
Torres straits --
Captain Nemo's thunderbolt --
Morbid slumber --
Coral kingdom --
Indian Ocean --
The fresh proposition of Captain Nemo's --
Pearl worth ten millions --
Red Sea --
Mediterranean --
Vigo Bay --
Vanished Continent --
Sargasso Sea, Cachalots and Whales --
Ice-bank --
South Pole --
Accident or incident? --
Want of air --
Squids --
Gulf stream --
Hecatomb --
Captain Nemo's last words --
Conclusion.

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1000058

843.8 VER t

English - Non Fiction (MISG - JHS Library)

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Detail Information

Series Title

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Call Number

843.8 VER t

Publisher

London : Penguin Group., 1986

Collation

279p, 19cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-140-36721-7

Classification

843.8 VER t

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Subject(s)

Science fiction.
Submarines (Ships) -- Fiction.
Submarines -- Fiction.
Underwater exploration -- Fiction.
French fiction -- Translations into English.
Sea Stories.
Adventure fiction, French -- Tranlations into Engl
Nemo, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Underwater exploration.
Submarines (Ships)
French fiction

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