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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.
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 ( )
Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino Jules Verne Publicado: 1869 Novela Aventuras Infantil Juvenil
Cuando Verne ideó la construcción del Nautilus, escribió a Hetzel, su editor y amigo: «Le aseguro que su arca estará mejor equipada que la de Noé». Verne, que había visitado ya los centros de la Tierra y del aire, quiso bajar a los abismos del mar. Imaginó un personaje épico, el atormentado capitán Nemo, un sabio desengañado de la raza humana, que se mueve por una de esas obsesivas reivindicaciones tan típicas de la novela de aventuras: la justicia implacable, no exenta de venganza, y la humillación del adversario. El texto que presentamos aquí no es la obra completa. Hemos reducido su contenido, hemos resumido acontecimientos y hemos eliminado narraciones, datos y, sobre todo, descripciones. El lector puede encontrar aquí una especie de «aperitivo» que le invite a leer más adelante la obra entera y a conocer todas las maravillas del mundo submarino que nos cuentan en ella. Eso es, sin duda, lo que pretendía Julio Verne y eso es lo que hemos pretendido nosotros.
A really good sea adventure book. It especially drew me in with the scuba diving parts, to which I can now happily relate! This particular version has a chronology of historical events, giving readers some context for the scientific/technological aspects of the book. For example, to us a fully electric submarine is a fact, but this was written twenty years before the first modern submarine - putting it firmly in the realm of fantasy for its time.
What I didn't like about this book was the over-detailed descriptions of sea animals and plants. Whole pages were devoted to simply listing off the types of creatures seen by the narrator, and sometimes it was upwards of five pages before the writing returned to the plot. Another complaint is that the narrator conveniently lost consciousness during tricky plot twists, so that "unavoidable" disasters were actually avoided but with no description of exactly how.
A barely recalled classic book, but recalled as being enjoyable. It took a while to realized that the 20,000 leagues were not about the, impossible, depth that Nemo reached, but the distance from place to place the craft traveled. ( )
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.
Quotations
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.
Last words
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.
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Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive. So begins not only one of the great adventure classics by Jules Verne, the 'Father of Science Fiction', but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to the South Pole.
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Their ship gets rammed by A crazy man who captures them And takes them with him
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