Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas - Noyemi
By Jules Verne
Translated from the Original French by F. P. Walter Contents Color Plates vii Introduction ix Units of Measure xii FIRST PART 1. A Runaway Reef 1 2. The Pros and Cons 6 3. As Master Wishes 10 4. Ned Land 14 5. At Random! 19 6. At Full Steam 24 7. A Whale of Unknown Species 30 8. "Mobilis in Mobili" 35 9. The Tantrums of Ned Land 41 10. The Man of the Waters 46 11. The Nautilus 53 12. Everything through Electricity 58 13. Some Figures 63 14. The Black Current 68 15. An Invitation in Writing 76 16. Strolling the Plains 82 17. An Underwater Forest 86 18. Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific 91 19. Vanikoro 96 20. The Torres Strait 103 21. Some Days Ashore 109 22. The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo 117 23. "Aegri Somnia" 126 24. The Coral Realm 132 SECOND PART 1. The Indian Ocean 138 2. A New Proposition from Captain Nemo 145 3. A Pearl Worth Ten Million 152 4. The Red Sea 160 5. Arabian Tunnel 170 6. The Greek Islands 176 7. The Mediterranean in Forty-Eight Hours 184 8. The Bay of Vigo 191 9. A Lost Continent 199 10. The Underwater Coalfields 206 11. The Sargasso Sea 214 12. Sperm Whales and Baleen Whales 220 13. The Ice Bank 228
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"The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?"
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