Twenty thousand leagues under the sea

Twenty thousand leagues under the sea (French title Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fictionnovel by French writer Jules Verne. The novel was published in 1870.



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[hide] *Title 1  ==Title[ Edit] == The length listed in the title, is an hour's walk. A metric lieue is four kilometres. The distance travelled according to the book is indeed about 80 000 kilometres. The lieueis used at sea, however, is more than three nautical miles, 5.5 km. ==Content[ Edit] == The story begins in 1866. A mysterious sea monster, according to some eye-witnesses a large narwhal, terrorizes the ships of different countries. After an attack on a chip, the u.s. Government passed a Ocean boat expedition together to detect and destroy this monster. One of the members of the expedition is the French professor Pierre Aronnax and marine biologist . He is also the narrator of the story. Other members of the team are Aronnax ' submissive Assistant Conseil, which follows his master in everything, and the harpooner Ned Land hasn't been less Canadian.
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The expedition departs from Long Island (New York) on board the naval vessel Abraham Lincoln. After a long search on the Pacific Ocean, the sample is found. It comes to an encounter between the sample and the ship, where the ship sustains heavy damage. The three protagonists fall overboard, and end up on the sample. This monster turns out to their surprise no beast, but a metal construction: it is a submarine. The three are taken on board, and greeted by the captain of the boat, Nemo. He tells that the submarine carries the name Nautilus , and a creation is by himself.

Squid attack the Nautilus toNemo would like to thank the three men not let go, because his secret must be preserved. Otherwise they are welcoming treated.The rest of the book describes the voyage of the Nautilus by the oceans of the world. Nemo is a very scholarly and very rich man. He seems to be driven by both an appetite for revenge on scientific knowledge and civilization. He has vowed never to set foot on the country and its ship will be fully provided by the products of the sea. The Nautilus itself is completely powered by electricity and is equipped with equipment for scrutiny on the seabed. Makes the best of his situation while Aronnax and even can get along with Nemo, with whom he shares a common obsession for marine life, trying to come up with Ned Land constantly attempts to escape.

With the crew outside Nemo, the three protagonists virtually no contact. This is partly because they speak a language that the three cannot understand, and partly because they are aloof carried. It is also possible that the crew has been given instructions not to interfere with the three, although the book explicitly mentions this anywhere. Two crew members die during the journey. A mortally wounded in an attack on a ship hits to his head, the second is seized by a giant squid.

The Nautilus embarks on a journey of 80 000 kilometres: from the Ocean near Japan through Polynesia to the Torres Strait, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, the Gulf stream and eventually the Norwegian coast. On their journey the Group ends up in many exotic locations. They go on a submarine hunt Crespo at the island and are almost killed by the natives of New Guinea. They visit the Pearl bank of Ceylon and buried a crew member in a coral reef. They see the corals of the Red Sea, visit the South Pole and the legendary Atlantis. Nemo shows even more of his inventions, including suits with which the crew can explore the seabed, and special guns with electric bullets. That the journey is not without danger appears when all residents under Antarctic snagged and almost choke by oxygen deprivation, when a crew member dies by an accident on board, and when the Nautilus is attacked by squids.

Eventually, the Nautilus detected and attacked by a Navy ship. Despite the urging of Aronnax to this boat to spare, put the ship in the attack and Nemo plummets. Nemo is consumed by guilt and weakens him and the crew's vigilance. Shortly thereafter the Nautilus -vortex in the Moskstraumenoff the coast of Norway. This is the chance where the three prisoners have been waiting for, and they escape from the Nautiluscan tell the story, so that Aronnax. Aronnax is West and joins in a fishermen's cabins on the Lofoten. The fate of Nemo and his crew is not revealed. Read warning: ends here.==References<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==

The crew of the Nautilus submarine attends a funeral<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The name of the captain is a subtle reference to Homer's the Odyssey. In the Odyssey, Odysseus meets the Cyclops Polyphemus. When Odysseus asks Odysseus his name, answer to this with "ουτις," which translates to "no one". In the Latin translation of the Odyssey is this pseudonym translates as "Nemo".

<p lang="en" len="292" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury, a famous oceanographer, is mentioned several times in Verne's book.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The book also includes references to three other famous French: Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, Jules Dumont d'Urville and Ferdinand de Lesseps. In his book let Verne the Nautilus places that these men have also visited.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Verne took the name Nautilus on of the oldest successful submarine, built in 1800 by Robert Fulton.

<p lang="en" len="199" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The dive boat from Verne's story predicted quite accurately the role that submarines would play later, as their capabilities as military weapons and the danger that they are for normal ships pose.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Also significant in the story is the hard, and before that, revolutionary, political view that Captain Nemo has on the world. In the sequel book, the mysterious island, it is revealed that Nemo lead an existence went on sea as a result of the Indian rebellion of 1857, in which many of his relatives were killed. ==Film and television operations<span class="mw-editsection" len="367" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == The Nautilus, as he appeared in the Disney film*20000 lieues sous les mers (1907)
 * 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
 * 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1952) – a two-part operation for the anthology Tales of Tomorrow .
 * 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
 * Captain Nemo and the underwater City (1969) – UK version with a different story.
 * 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1972)- Rankin-Bassproduction
 * Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (1973) – an Australian animated film.
 * The Return of Captain Nemo (1978 TV movie)
 * The Black Hole (1979) (a science fiction adaptation of the book)
 * 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1985).
 * 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
 * 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
 * Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
 * The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo
 * 30,000 Leagues Under The Sea (2007)