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Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.
A French marine biologist named Aronnax narrates his journey to capture a mythical sea creature called a narwhal. What he and his shipmates discover is that the creature doesn’t exist. Instead they find a submarine call the Nautilus, which has been created secretly and travels around the world beneath the surface of the water. The sub’s Captain, a man who calls himself Nemo, tells his new captives that they must remain on the Nautilus so they won’t have a chance to revel his secret to the world.
I love the premise, but the execution didn’t work for me. There are so many details that’s the plot gets lost in the minutia. Verne was certainly a visionary, but he must have been on some oceanic kick while writing this one. The descriptions of each individual sea creature go on for pages and it was incredibly hard to stay interested.
The amazing thing about the book is that it was published in 1870, long before submarines of the Nautilus’ stature were invented. I also thought it was interesting that the 20,000 leagues in the title refer to how far they travel in the sub. I always thought it was talking about how deep they went. Sadly these tidbits weren’t enough to really make the book work for me. I don’t regret reading it, because sometimes I’m just curious about classics, but I wouldn’t read it again. ( )
A mission to rid the seas of a monstrous creature becomes a terrifying nightmare when Professor Arronax, Conseil and Ned Land are thrown overboard. The huge marine animal which has haunted the water is no living beast, but a spectacular man-made vessel, and the three men find themselves the helpless prisoners of Captain Nemo. Resigned to their fate, they begin a miraculous journey on the submarine ship which can travel through waters never before explored. For the Professor, at least, this voyage is one he would not have missed for the world.
I must have read an abridged version when I was younger, because I didn't realize how much of this was literally just rattling off various species of animals and plants they observed. ( )
What would you do if you were trapped in a submarine that never wished to contact humanity ever again? Would you try to escape back to land or would you be content to live comfortably under the waves and never see land again?
This book is about exploration of the sea which was a very difficult task at the time of the writing of this book and much of the sea remains unexplored today. The main characters are Professor Aronnax, Ned Land, Conseil, and Captain Nemo. The Professor who is a marine biologist and his servant Conseil were invited to travel on a voyage with Ned Land who was hired to kill a large sea monster that had been causing many unexplained collisions with ships. The monster was determined to be a submarine after Professor Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land were thrown overboard and they were taken captive. The submarine was operated by Captain Nemo who swore off humanity and never wished to see land again.
The theme of this book is freedom and that everybody has a price on their freedom. The theme is displayed through the conflict between Professor Aronnax and Ned Land who have different lifestyles and are suited differently to their confinement with the professor not worrying too much about trying to get his freedom back because he is content to to live under the waves and study the ocean but Ned Land grows more homesick every day and will do whatever it takes to get his freedom back and return home. This conflict also involves Captain Nemo who wants to keep them captive to keep his submarine a secret but he knows that keeping them captive goes against his morals.
I recommend this novel because the scenery of the ocean is very well described in good detail and the plot has a very important message about freedom and what that can mean to individuals and how high or low it is valued, but at times the text can get a little too scientific for those who don’t care about that so much, however, the classification of the different species of fish and other animals adds to the central conflict of the story to show why the professor wants to stay, so this book would be very good for people who like the sea, sciences, a little bit of mystery and some action. ( )
The Charakters are relatively uninteresting, the descriptions of an Alien underworld have their charm but get boring after a while. Without much Else going for this book and IT having 600 Pages, I am giving IT only two stars ( )
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The year 1866 was marked by a strange event, an unexplainable occurrence which is undoubtedly still fresh in everyone's memory.
In the year 1866 the whole maritime population of Europe and America was excited by a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon.
The year 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
I leave you at liberty to shut yourself up; cannot I be allowed the same?
Like you, I am willing to live obscure, in the frail hope of bequeathing one day, to future time, the result of my labours.
At ten o'clock in the evening the sky was on fire. The atmosphere was streaked with vivid lightning. I could not bear the brightness of it; while the captain, looking at it, seemed to envy the spirit of the tempest.
At the period when these events took place, I had just returned from a scientific research in the disagreeable territory of Nebraska, in the United States.
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Thus, to that question asked six thousand years ago by Ecclesiastes, "That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?" only two men now have the right to answer: Captain Nemo and myself.
And to the question asked by Ecclesiastes 3,000 years ago, 'That which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out?' two men alone of all now living have the right to give an answer—CAPTAIN NEMO AND MYSELF.
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Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.
I love the premise, but the execution didn’t work for me. There are so many details that’s the plot gets lost in the minutia. Verne was certainly a visionary, but he must have been on some oceanic kick while writing this one. The descriptions of each individual sea creature go on for pages and it was incredibly hard to stay interested.
The amazing thing about the book is that it was published in 1870, long before submarines of the Nautilus’ stature were invented. I also thought it was interesting that the 20,000 leagues in the title refer to how far they travel in the sub. I always thought it was talking about how deep they went. Sadly these tidbits weren’t enough to really make the book work for me. I don’t regret reading it, because sometimes I’m just curious about classics, but I wouldn’t read it again. ( )