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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

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Paper book: €23.99

Digital: €8.99

Original publication
1870
Pages
385
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Adventure, Science Fiction
Moods
Escape it all, Be enchanted, Imagine tomorrow
Translated from
French

Book summary

In 1866, an unknown sea monster is reported on every ocean. Professor Aronnax sets out to hunt it down, with his servant Conseil and the harpooner Ned Land. Thrown into the sea, they are taken aboard the Nautilus, an extraordinary submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo.

Prisoners of this man who has broken with the world, they travel the oceans of the globe with him and discover the wonders of an undersea world then unknown. But who is Nemo really, and why does he flee dry land?

Full of adventure and discovery, this novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

A walk on the ocean floor. Professor Aronnax, a French scientist, lives aboard the Nautilus, a submarine. One day, Captain Nemo, the master of the ship, invites him to go hunting in his forests. The professor thinks…

The world of the book

The seabed, an unknown world. The voyage takes place in 1867 and 1868. Great steamships cross the oceans, but no one has ever seen the bottom of the sea. The first submarines are slow experimental boats that stay close…

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