20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Fast Track Classics)
A huge sea monster has attacked and wrecked several ships from beneath the sea. Professor Arronax bravely joins a mission to hunt down the beast. He goes aboard the Nautilus, a secret submarine helmed by the mysterious Captain Nemo. At first, the mission is exciting, as Nemo takes the ship on a...
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A huge sea monster has attacked and wrecked several ships from beneath the sea. Professor Arronax bravely joins a mission to hunt down the beast. He goes aboard the Nautilus, a secret submarine helmed by the mysterious Captain Nemo. At first, the mission is exciting, as Nemo takes the ship on a voyage around the underwater world. But when things start to go wrong, Arronax finds there is no escape from the Nautilus -- he is now Captain Nemo's captive, 20,000 leagues under the sea!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780237526887 (0237526883)
Publish date: August 1st 2004
Publisher: Evans Brothers
Pages no: 48
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Cultural,
Steampunk,
France,
Fiction
TITLE: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas AUTHOR: Jules Verne TRANSLATOR: William Butcher EDITION: Oxford World's Classics DATE OF PUBLICATION: 2009 (reissue) FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 9780199539277 ______________________________ Description: "French naturalist Dr Aronnax embarks ...
It's cool how he used imagination and tried to keep things as scientific as possible. I'm sure this story inspired many after it. Merged review:It's cool how he used imagination and tried to keep things as scientific as possible. I'm sure this story inspired many after it.
“Under the seaUnder the seaWhen the sardineBegin the beguineIt's music to meWhat do they got? A lot of sandWe got a hot crustacean bandEach little clam hereknow how to jam hereUnder the sea”- Sebastian the groovy Caribbean CrabThe perfect soundtrack for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas really....
Once again my Classical Literature Bookclub has selected a book that I have been meaning to reread but have not been able to due to the multitude of other books on my to-read shelf (and also the fact that the copy that my Dad owns is back in Adelaide, along with the other Jules Verne books that I wo...
Those who don't know who were Jules Verne, Herbert Wells, Albert Robida etc can't fully appreciate the history and strength of the SF genre.