Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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- First published
- 1869
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A Runaway Reef
19:43 -
The Pros and Cons
14:02 -
As Master Wishes
12:00 -
Ned Land
16:58 -
At Random!
15:42 -
At Full Steam
20:25 -
A Whale of Unknown Species
19:23 -
"Mobilis in Mobili"
21:01 -
The Tantrums of Ned Land
16:21 -
The Man of the Waters
20:58 -
The Nautilus
20:39 -
Everything through Electricity
15:57 -
Some Figures
15:15 -
The Black Current
24:07 -
An Invitation in Writing
17:21 -
Strolling the Plains
17:27 -
An Underwater Forest
18:12 -
Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific
16:53 -
Vanikoro
27:08 -
The Torres Strait
22:56 -
Some Days Ashore
26:18 -
The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo
23:20 -
"Aegri Somnia"
18:17 -
The Coral Realm
19:13 -
The Indian Ocean
24:13 -
A New Proposition from Captain Nemo
23:29 -
A Pearl Worth Ten Million
24:40 -
The Red Sea
29:54 -
Arabian Tunnel
16:56 -
The Greek Islands
21:59 -
The Mediterranean in Forty-Eight Hours
21:28 -
The Bay of Vigo
24:15 -
A Lost Continent
22:33 -
The Underwater Coalfields
27:31 -
The Sargasso Sea
23:14 -
Sperm Whales and Baleen Whales
25:04 -
The Ice Bank
28:39 -
The South Pole
29:42 -
Accident or Incident?
17:33 -
Shortage of Air
23:07 -
From Cape Horn to the Amazon
25:22 -
The Devilfish
26:41 -
The Gulf Stream
26:18 -
In Latitude 47 degrees 24' and Longitude 17 degrees 28'
23:44 -
A Mass Execution
21:41 -
The Last Words of Captain Nemo
18:10 -
Conclusion
4:20
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) is a public domain work.
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Ships are going down in 1866 and nobody can say what is doing it. Professor Aronnax joins the hunt, and the sea monster turns out to be a machine: the Nautilus, run by a captain who has severed every tie to every country on land and answers only to Nemo.
What Verne cared about is all on the page. The diving apparatus, the electric lighting, the coral burial ground, the passage beneath the Antarctic ice. Nemo's history he withholds almost entirely, which is part of why other writers kept rebuilding the character for the next hundred years.
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The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several states on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter.
For some time past, vessels had been met by “an enormous thing,” a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale.
The facts relating to this apparition (entered in various log-books) agreed in most respects as to the shape of the object or creature in question, the untiring rapidity of its movements, its surprising power of locomotion, and the peculiar life with which it seemed endowed. If it was a cetacean, it surpassed in size all those hitherto classified in science. Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers times,—rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length,—we might fairly conclude that this mysterious being surpassed greatly all dimensions admitted by the ichthyologists of the day, if it existed at all. And that it did exist was an undeniable fact; and, with that tendency which disposes the human mind in favour of the marvellous, we can understand the excitement produced in the entire world by this supernatural apparition. As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question.
On the 20th of July, 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson, of the Calcutta and Burnach Steam Navigation Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia. Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the presence of an unknown sandbank; he even prepared to determine its exact position, when two columns of water, projected by the inexplicable object, shot with a hissing noise a hundred and fifty feet up into the air. Now, unless the sandbank had been submitted to the intermittent eruption of a geyser, the Governor Higginson had to do neither more nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with air and vapour.
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- Author
- Jules Verne
- First published
- 1869
- Reading time
- About 8 hours
- Pages
- 292
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Victorian Era
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