20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

by Verne, Jules; McKowen, Scott; Pober, Arthur

• ISBN13: 9781402725999
• ISBN10: 140272599X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-28
• Publisher: Sterling

Summary

Originally published in 1870, Verne's amazing undersea adventure is one of the earliest science fiction novels ever written. Since that time, generations of readers have plunged below the ocean's waves with Captain Nemo and his first-ever submarine,The Nautilus. It's a voyage of exploration and the imagination.

Table of Contents

Part I
A Shifting Reef	3	(6)
Pro and Con	9	(5)
I Form My Resolution	14	(5)
Ned Land	19	(6)
At a Venture	25	(5)
At Full Steam	30	(7)
An Unknown Species of Whale	37	(6)
Mobilis in Mobili	43	(6)
Ned Land's Tempers	49	(3)
The Man of the Seas	52	(13)
All by Electricity	65	(5)
Some Figures	70	(6)
The Black River	76	(6)
A Note of Invitation	82	(7)
A Walk on the Bottom of the Sea	89	(5)
A Submarine Forest	94	(6)
Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific	100	(6)
Vanikoro	106	(8)
Torres Straits	114	(7)
A Few Days on Land	121	(8)
Captain Nemo's Thunderbolt	129	(9)
``Ægri Somnia''	138	(7)
The Coral Kingdom	145	(8)
Part II
The Indian Ocean	153	(7)
A Novel Proposal of Captain Nemo's	160	(6)
A Pearl of Ten Millions	166	(9)
The Red Sea	175	(10)
The Arabian Tunnel	185	(7)
The Grecian Archipelago	192	(10)
The Mediterranean in Forty-eight Hours	202	(6)
Vigo Bay	208	(9)
A Vanished Continent	217	(8)
The Submarine Coal Mines	225	(7)
The Sargasso Sea	232	(5)
Cachalots and Whales	237	(8)
The Iceberg	245	(8)
The South Pole	253	(9)
Accident or Incident?	262	(6)
Want of Air	268	(8)
From Cape Horn to the Amazon	276	(7)
The Poulps	283	(8)
The Gulf Stream	291	(8)
From Latitude 47° 24' to Longitude 17° 28'	299	(5)
A Hecatomb	304	(8)
The Last Words of Captain Nemo	312	(7)
Conclusion	319	(2)
Questions, Questions, Questions	321	(4)
Arthur Pober
About the Author	325	(1)
About the Illustrator	325