Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

In 1866 an unexplained sea monster alarms the navies of the world, and Professor Aronnax sails to hunt it down. Thrown overboard with his servant and a Canadian harpooner, he is taken aboard the Nautilus, a submarine under Captain Nemo. Guests and prisoners of a man who has broken with dry land, they travel the oceans of the globe with him. The novel explores science, freedom seized against all nations, and an underwater world still unknown. Verne combines a naturalist's inventory with an adventure narrative, paced by landfalls and storms.