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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea

Author: Jules Verne; Robin Waterfield
Publisher: London : Puffin, 1986
Series: Puffin classics
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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.
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Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jules Verne; Robin Waterfield
ISBN: 0140367217 : 9780140367218
OCLC Number: 31376436
Notes: Translation of: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers.
Description: 279 p. ; 20 cm.
Contents: 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 -- Invitiation -- 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.
Series Title: Puffin classics
Other Titles: 20,000 Leagues under the sea., Vingt mille lieues sous les mers.
Responsibility: Jules Verne ; [this abridgement by Robin Waterfield].

Abstract:

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.

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