Jules Verne ~10 hr read

Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and the harpooner Ned Land are taken aboard the Nautilus by the mysterious Captain Nemo, and swept on a wondrous, captive voyage beneath the world's oceans.

This is the complete original French text of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Visionary, thrilling, immortal. Read it for the incomparable undersea epic in Verne's own language, the enigmatic Nemo, his marvelous submarine, and a tour of the ocean's wonders and terrors, from coral kingdoms to sunken Atlantis to the giant squid, in the master's cornerstone of scientific romance.

In its time

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

Reading it

~10 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).