Beschreibung

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction adventure
novel by French writer Jules Verne.
The book was widely acclaimed on its release and remains so; it is regarded as one
of the premier adventure novels and one of Verne's greatest works, along with
Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Its
depiction of Captain Nemo's underwater ship, the Nautilus, is regarded as ahead of
its time, since it accurately describes many features of today's submarines, which
in the 1860s were comparatively primitive vessels.
During the year 1866, ships of various nationalities sight a mysterious sea monster,
which, it is later suggested, might be a gigantic narwhal. The U.S. government
assembles an expedition in New York City to find and destroy the monster.
Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist and the story's narrator, is in
town at the time and receives a last-minute invitation to join the expedition; he
accepts. Canadian whaler and master harpooner Ned Land and Aronnax's faithful
manservant Conseil are also among the participants.