The sea is the be all and end all!…It’s an immense wilderness where a man is never lonely, because he feels life astir on every side.
After several maritime casualties, and many vessels spotting a mysterious creature in the waters, the United States government arrangers for an expedition to chase and destroy this creature.
As a series of adventures follows, will they be able to find this sea monster?
One of the debut adventure novels, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is Jules Verne’s masterpiece. Published more than a century ago, this classic science fiction continues to be praised by its readers.Jules Gabtriel Verne was born in February 1828. He developed a passion for travelling and adventures at an early age. Verne had begun writing in his teens. Un preterm en 1839 (A Priest in 1839), his unfinished novels, is one of his earliest surviving prose works.
His first novel, Five Weeks in a Ballon, was published by Hetzel in 1863. The Adventures of captain Hatteras was first published in book form in 1866. The Voyages Extra ordinaries (Extraordinary Voyages or Extraordinary Journeys), a sequence of fifty-four novels, was publisher between 1863 and 1905. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From Earth to the Moon (1865), 20,000 Legues Under the Sea (1870), were some of the works included in the series. Around the world in Eighty Days (1873) is one of Verne’s most acclaimed works.
Verne died in 1905 at his home in Amiens. Paris in the Twentieth Century (1994), written in 1863, and Backwards to Britain (1989), were two of his works published posthumously.