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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea / Jules Verne ; [this abridgement by Robin Waterfield].
A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780140367218
- ISBN: 0140367217
- Physical Description: 279 pages ; 20 cm.
- Publisher: London : Puffin, 1994.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Translation of: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Floating reef -- For and against -- As Monsieur pleases -- Ned land -- With all steam on -- Whale of an unknown species -- Mobilis in Mobili -- Ned Land's anger -- Nemo -- Nautilus -- Invitation -- At the bottom of the sea -- Submarine forest -- Four thousand leagues under the Pacific -- Torres straits -- Captain Nemo's thunderbolt -- Morbid slumber -- Coral kingdom -- Indian Ocean -- Fresh proposition of Captain Nemo's -- Pearl worth ten millions -- Red Sea -- Mediterranean -- Vigo Bay -- Vanished Continent -- Sargasso Sea, Cachalots and Whales -- Ice-bank -- South Pole -- Accident or incident? -- Want of air -- Squids -- Gulf stream -- Hecatomb -- Captain Nemo's last words -- Conclusion. |
| Target Audience Note: | Young Adult. |
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| Subject: | French fiction > Translations into English. Submarines (Ships) > Fiction. Adventure fiction, French > Tranlations into English. Nemo, Captain (Fictitious character) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Science fiction. Sea fiction. |
