Jules Verne, a renowned French novelist known for his science fiction works, wrote 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea', narrated by professor Pierre Aronnax, who is captured by Captain Nemo aboard the submarine Nautilus. The story follows Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and Canadian harpooner Ned Land as they embark on underwater adventures while attempting to uncover the mysteries of the sea and the enigmatic character of Captain Nemo. The novel, part of Verne's extraordinary voyages series, explores various marine settings and themes, and has been significantly translated and adapted since its original publication.

1. Rosa Elena Mejia Castro
Twenty
Thousand Leagues
Under The Sea

2. Jules Verne
▪ Born in France in February 8th, 1828.
▪ He was a French novelist, poet and playwright.
▪ Wrote many books of science fiction, the most
popular is the book series named Extraordinary
Voyages, which includes 54 books, between
Twenty thousand leagues under the seas.
▪ He has been the second most translated author
in the world since 1979.
▪ Died of diabetes on March 24th 1905

3. Plot
The book is narrated in first person by the French professor and
biologist Pierre Aronnax, which is made prisoner by the Captain
Nemo in the Nautilus submarine. The professor was in company
of his servant and a Canadian harpooner Ned Land.
Everything starts with Pierre, his servant, Ned Land and a ship’s
crew in an hunt expedition of a strange creature of the sea that
has made a lot of damages on another ships. When the creature
attacks their ship they finish in the Nautilus. There met the
Captain Nemo who made them prisoners.
Inside of the submarine they live adventures under the sea,
learning new things of the ocean that they think impossible.

4. Genre
20000 thousands leagues under the sea is a science fiction
novel, as the most of all the novels that Jules Verne wrote. It
is part of the series Extraordinary Voyages.

5. Characters
• Captain Nemo: A mysterious adventurer that control the Nautilus,
he attacks constantly the commercial ships, is a lonely man that
for some reasons has a deep hate to the most part of the human
race.
• Professor Pierre Aronnax: is a professor in the Museum of Natural
History of Paris who aboard the ship that has an encounter with
the Nautilus, he was in the mission of discover what creature was
making all the damages.

6. Characters
• Conseil: Is the manservant of Pierre, he is devoted in his role of servant,
is not a complex character, but stands out in his own way. Also the
conseil it was a kind of a trainee.
Ned land: The Canadian harpooner who also was a prisoner in the
Nautilus, he all the book has the idea to scape.

7. Setting
The most part of the setting is under the sea, getting amaze
of the new things that we read about the sea. Everything
inside the great Nautilus, which has a fascinating structure,
that in that time was almost consider the future. We read
about the mythic Atlantic, and a lot of seas, like The Red
Sea, the Mediterranean, and more. Also we read about
setting in warships which this ones have fight with the
Nautilus, almost of the times Nautilus wins.

8. Chapters Part 1
Chapter 1: A Shifting Reef
Chapter 2: Pros and Cons
Chapter 3: As Monsieur Pleases
Chapter 4: Ned Land
Chapter 5: In Search of Adventure
Chapter 6: Full Steam Ahead
Chapter 7: An Unknown Species of Whale
Chapter 8: Mobilis in Mobile
Chapter 9: Ned Land’s Fits of Anger
Chapter 10: The Man of the Sea
Chapter 11: The Nautilus
Chapter 12: All by Electricity
Chapter 13: A Few Figures
Chapter 14: The Black River
Chapter 15: A Written Invitation
Chapter 16: An Excursion over the Plains
Chapter 17: An underwater Forest
Chapter 18: Four Thousand Leagues under
the Pacific
Chapter 19: Vanikoro
Chapter 20: Torres Strait
Chapter 21: A Few Days on Land
Chapter 22: Captain Nemo’s Lightning
Chapter 23: Aegri Somnia
Chapter 24: The Coral Kingdom

9. Chapters Part 2
Chapter 1: The Indian Ocean
Chapter 2: A New Suggestion by
Captain Nemo
Chapter 3: A Pearl Worth Ten Million
Chapter 4: The Red Sea
Chapter 5: Arabian Tunnel
Chapter 6: The Greek Islands
Chapter 7: The Mediterranean in
Forty Eight Hours
Chapter 8: Vigo Bay
Chapter 9: A Vanished Continent
Chapter 10: Underwater Coalmines
Chapter 11: The Sargasso Sea
Chapter 12: Sperm Whales and
Baleen Whales
Chapter 13: The Ice Cap
Chapter 14: The South Pole
Chapter 15: Accident or Incident?
Chapter 16: Not Enough Air
Chapter 17: From Cape Horn to the
Amazon
Chapter 18: Squid
Chapter 19: The Gulf Stream
Chapter 20: 47°24’N, 17°28’W
Chapter 21: A Massacre
Chapter 22: Captain Nemo’s Last
Words
Chapter 23: Conclusion

10. Pages
It has 464 pages in a new edition of
2017.

11. Translations
The novel was first translated into English in 1873 by Lewis Mercier,
but he cut almost a quarter of Verne’s French text, he committed
too much translating errors, sometimes include drastically
distorting the original text.
In 1966 a new and modern revision appeared by Walter Miller
and the Mercier’s errors where restored in the text proper.