TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the sea is  one of the science fiction and adventure

books written by Jules Verne(1828-1905) and published in 1870.

As the title, it's a novel that talks about the journey of  men under the sea at 20.000 leagues of distance.

The story was set in the second half of the eighteen century, the sea was haunted by a strange monster that caused numerous accidents to ships. For this reason the main character Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist accompanied by his faithful assistant Conseil and Canadian whaler Ned Land, was invited by the US government  to join the expedition on board a ship called the Abraham Lincoln. For a series of adventures the three found the “creature” which was just a huge submarine, the Nautilus, with the captain Nemo who was hospitable  and invited them to join his crew. He also  said they could never leave because he was afraid they would betray his existence to the world. During the journey under the sea, they encountered many unknown creatures and interesting things, faced numerous adventures, but deep inside their hearts they plotted to go back home.

The novel shows  us many imaginative aspects of the sea beds: like the "sea forest "which is animated by numerous sea beings; ruins and wrecks of ships caused by power of the sea; some anomalous places like the cemetery where  the died members of the crew lay....

Overall "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is a fantastic fiction novel.

 by Huang