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A mysterious sea monster attacks a ship. Three men are thrown from the deck. They find themselves on the back of the supposed whale. Amazed, they discover it is covered with steel plates. They are on top of a marine! Senly the marine begins to sink. Will they be washed into the sea? Or will their criee heard by the men—whoever they are—inside the strange vessel? Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a fascinating tale of adventure with Captain Nemo (“no name”) in his marine ship, the Nautilus. We find the story thrilling; readers of Jules Verne’s day must have found it much more exciting. Nobody at that time had made a practical marine. The Nautilus was the product of the author’s imagination. Jules Verne had been around ships and boats most of his life. But his trip to America in 1867 was hir>first ocean voyage. The ship that carried Verne from his native France war>the Great Eastern. She was the largest and most splendid passenger ship of the time. But Verne was not interested in her because of what she was in 1867; hir>interest was in what she had been the year before. Without her splendid fittings, she had been used to lay the first successful Atlantic cable li England and America. ……
