Jules Verne 4 hr 9 min read

Captain Nemo, the Nautilus, and twenty thousand leagues of ocean, the eastern half of Verne's undersea epic.

When ships across the world's oceans report a vast, glowing, impossibly fast 'monster,' a naturalist joins the hunt and finds himself aboard the most famous submarine in fiction, guest and prisoner of the brilliant, embittered Captain Nemo. This Dutch edition carries the eastern-hemisphere half of Verne's 1870 masterpiece, from coral forests to the Torres Strait. The template for every underwater adventure that followed. Read it for the founding voyage of scientific romance, still thrilling a century and a half on.

In its time

Published in 1870, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

4 hr 9 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).