| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Contributor(s): Verne, Jules (Author) |
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ISBN: 1618951467 ISBN-13: 9781618951465 Publisher: Bibliotech Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 920 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 228 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax. The title refers to the distance traveled while under the sea and not to a depth, as 20,000 leagues is over six times the diameter of Earth. The greatest depth mentioned in the book is four leagues. In the book, a league is equivalent to four kilometres. A literal translation of the French title would end in the plural "seas", thus implying the "seven seas" through which the characters of the novel travel; however, the early English translations of the title used "sea", meaning the ocean in general. |