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Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.
Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant Conseil and Canadian harpooner Ned Land, begin an extremely dangerous journey to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive.
One of the great adventure classics of Jules Verne, father of science fiction, a truly fantastic journey.
New empires and militarism were emerging in Europe and Asia, and the United States was recovering from an exhaustive civil war. Despite political instability, it was a time of revolutionary innovation. It was at this time that Jules Verne published 20,000 leagues under the sea.
Imagination is the mother of invention and Jules Verne was ahead of his time. When 20,000 leagues were published, submarines were small primitive devices, prone to sinking and virtually untested. This book brought submarines to full public awareness, stimulating innovation and experimentation. In addition to being imaginative, Jules Verne was impeccable in his research. The extent to which he included the scientific name of every creature under the sea was exhaustive. There are literally pages made up of lists of species, genera and family names for all the marine life they encountered. There is a meticulous description of everything. ( )
It is 1867, and the nautical world is abuzz with rumors of a mysterious, colossal, phosphorescent creature roaming the planet's oceans and, in at least one instance, sinking ships. A hunting expedition is organized to track down the beast once and for all, and after months at sea but nary a glimpse of anything unusual, suddenly there it is. The crew immediately go to battle with harpoon and cannon, but the leviathan seems immune to all attack. Aronnax, a French professor, his assistant Conseil, and Ned the harpooner are swept into the sea, ultimately finding themselves miles from their ship and giving themselves up for lost when their arms and legs unexpectedly find purchase on a hard, metallic object. It is the beast — no longer beast at all, but a manmade submarine. A hatch opens, and they are immediately dragged inside, thus beginning the adventure of their lives.
This was a pretty wild romp. I might have finished more quickly if I hadn't felt compelled to follow along on their journey in Google Maps, but that was also part of the fun. There is a lot to take in, not least the many, many descriptions of fish, whales, corals, and other marine fauna and flora. About three quarters of the way through I began to suspect that Conseil's character and his penchant for classification was really just an excuse for the author to work more marine biology into the book. I normally enjoy detailed description, but it was a bit much. I laughed out loud at Aronnax' Freudian slips at the pearl farms, and it was also cool to note that Verne describes Stockholm Syndrome before there was even a term for it. For a classic, not bad. ( )
Well, this is a bit difficult to grade. On the one hand, it tells an interesting adventure through the various seas of the earth. On the other hand, it's a long, tedious, boring cataloging of all kinds of under-sea flora and fauna, complete with a rather lengthy taxonomy of each, and so forth. I thought I might die before I got to the end.
So, it seems that there is a problem in shipping lanes. Occasionally a giant "Narwhal", or something, appears, occasionally spearing and sinking ships. So, a Navy frigate is sent off to investigate. Some of the folks on the frigate include, Pierre Arronnax, Professor at the Paris Museum of Natural History, Conseil, his manservant, and Ned Land, the King of the Harpooners. Eventually, they find the Narwhal. The frigate is pierced, but Arronnax, Conseil, and Land are all thrown into the water. The "Narwhal" rescues them and takes them on board. It turns out to be a rather fantastic submarine. It's captain is one Capt. Nemo. Nemo means "no man" in Latin.
Well, they're essentially prisoners on the submarine, the Nautilus, but they have free run of the vessel. The submarine then goes about circumnavigating the globe and checks out all the delights of the seas in every corner of the earth. They travel all over the place, even to the South Pole, which Verne didn't appear to know was embedded in a solid landmass. He rather thought it would be like the North Pole, just a frozen part of the sea.
Anyway, the travel is sort of interesting, but we get page after interminable page about all the flora and fauna that they see along the way, and one wants, after a time, to go back 150 years and give Verne a generous bop on the head.
My recollection from 1954 is that the movie was rather fun, and not nearly so boring. I tried checking it out on Hoopla, but although it was "in their collection", it wasn't currently available...to anyone. Gah! ( )
I read this with my kids. It was ok for me, but they got bored about halfway through with a lot of the details, so we switched to an abridged kid version that they found much more palatable. My kids generally have a high tolerance for this sort of book. As far as I got through it, I felt mostly kind of meh about it. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The year 1866 was marked by a strange event, an unexplainable occurrence which is undoubtedly still fresh in everyone's memory.
In the year 1866 the whole maritime population of Europe and America was excited by a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
I leave you at liberty to shut yourself up; cannot I be allowed the same?
Like you, I am willing to live obscure, in the frail hope of bequeathing one day, to future time, the result of my labours.
At ten o'clock in the evening the sky was on fire. The atmosphere was streaked with vivid lightning. I could not bear the brightness of it; while the captain, looking at it, seemed to envy the spirit of the tempest.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Thus, to that question asked six thousand years ago by Ecclesiastes, "That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?" only two men now have the right to answer: Captain Nemo and myself.
And to the question asked by Ecclesiastes 3,000 years ago, 'That which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out?' two men alone of all now living have the right to give an answer—CAPTAIN NEMO AND MYSELF.
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
This LT work should be editions containing the complete text of Jules Verne's 1869 novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Please do not combine it with any abridgements, adaptations, young readers' versions (see working list, below), pop-up books, Chick-fil-A editions, graphic novels, annotated editions, multi-title compendiums, single volumes of a multi-volume edition, or other, similar works based on the original. Thank you.
Working list of abridged editions not to be combined with the standard editions - Best Loved Books for Young Children, Children's Classics, Great Illustrated Classics, Treasury of Illustrated Classics, Classics Illustrated, Classic Starts Series, Saddleback Illustrated, Stepping Stone Books, Now Age Classics, Young Collectors, (believe it or not) American Short Stories, Deans Children's Classics, anything by Malvina Vogel, Van Gool Adventure Series, Bring the Classics to Life,
Note: The 1990 ed. of the Great Illustrated Classics contains the complete text (per L of C), ISBN 0895773473.
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A chimera of crappy Amazon third-party reseller data that has "20,000 leagues under the sea by Jules Verne" as the apparent author/title but the ISBN and associated cover of the Denoël/Présence du Futur french translation of "A Canticle for Leibowitz".
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.
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One of the great adventure classics of Jules Verne, father of science fiction, a truly fantastic journey.
New empires and militarism were emerging in Europe and Asia, and the United States was recovering from an exhaustive civil war. Despite political instability, it was a time of revolutionary innovation. It was at this time that Jules Verne published 20,000 leagues under the sea.
Imagination is the mother of invention and Jules Verne was ahead of his time. When 20,000 leagues were published, submarines were small primitive devices, prone to sinking and virtually untested. This book brought submarines to full public awareness, stimulating innovation and experimentation. In addition to being imaginative, Jules Verne was impeccable in his research. The extent to which he included the scientific name of every creature under the sea was exhaustive. There are literally pages made up of lists of species, genera and family names for all the marine life they encountered. There is a meticulous description of everything. (