Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

A floating reef ? A narwhal ? The frigate Abraham Lincoln is sent to investigate. On board are Professor Aronnax, his faithful valet Conseil, and the harpooner Ned Land. Thus begins an adventure that has entered legend. For the quarry they seek is none other than the Nautilus, a submersible utopia captained by its creator, the redoubtable and mysterious Captain Nemo. Prisoners on board the Nautilus, the oceanographer and his assistant see what man has never yet seen : the wonders of the ocean floor unfold before their eyes. Epic encounters await them in the pack-ice, in Atlantis, and in the maelström... Verne's prophetic novel is not just the first great masterpiece of science fiction. It is also a moral allegory and a hymn to liberation. And a miraculous catalogue of life beneath the ocean wave...