Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Unbearably thrilling and romantic…full of Verne’s gentle humour * Daily Mail *Among the deep-sea volcanoes, shoals of swirling fish, giant squid and sharks, Captain Nemo steers the Nautilus. Nemo is the renegade scientist par excellence, a man madly inventive in his quest for revenge * Sunday Telegraph *A tale of terror, suspense and wonder * Guardian *Fabulous…the pace is sharp and the story as dramatic and engaging as ever * Daily Express *Verne’s imagination has given us some of the greatest adventure stories of all time * Daily Mail *One of the books I have read and re-read with unfailing pleasure and interest is Jules Verne’s ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea…. Verne’s novel entranced me. I was in love with Captain Nemo, the brooding cultured misanthrope of the deeps, who combined the romantic qualities of Heathcliff and Byron with the ruthlessness of Macbeth * Independent *

Jules Verne was born on February 8, 1828, in the city of Nantes, France. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne is often referred to as the ‘Father of science fiction’ because he wrote about space, air and underwater travel before aeroplanes, spacecrafts and submarines were invented. He died in 1905.

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