Jules Verne 4 hr 44 min read

Captain Nemo dives deeper, the western-hemisphere half of Verne's undersea epic, from the Red Sea to the South Pole.

This Dutch edition carries the second half of Verne's 1870 masterpiece, picking up as the naturalist Aronnax and his companions, guests and prisoners of the brooding Captain Nemo aboard the Nautilus, press on through the Indian Ocean, an Arabian tunnel, the Mediterranean crossed in two days, a lost continent, and the ice of the far south. Verne piles marvel on marvel, a five-million-franc pearl, undersea coal mines, giant squid, while the enigmatic Nemo drifts ever further from the world of men. The founding voyage of undersea science fiction. Read it for wonder engineered on an epic scale.

In its time

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

Reading it

4 hr 44 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).