Captain Nemo 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne 1874 (eBook)

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

by

Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Introduction....................................................................................................................... 4

Units of Measure......................................................................................................... 6

PART I ............................................................................................................................... 8

A Runaway Reef............................................................................................................. 8

The Pros and Cons ........................................................................................................ 13

As Master Wishes ......................................................................................................... 18

Ned Land....................................................................................................................... 23

At Random!................................................................................................................... 29

At Full Steam ................................................................................................................ 34

A Whale of Unknown Species...................................................................................... 42

Mobilis in Mobili .......................................................................................................... 49

The Tantrums of Ned Land........................................................................................... 56

The Man of the Waters ................................................................................................. 62

The Nautilus.................................................................................................................. 70

Everything through Electricity...................................................................................... 76

Some Figures ................................................................................................................ 82

The Black Current......................................................................................................... 88

An Invitation in Writing................................................................................................ 98

Strolling the Plains...................................................................................................... 106

An Underwater Forest................................................................................................. 111

Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific................................................................. 116

Vanikoro ..................................................................................................................... 122

The Torres Strait ......................................................................................................... 130

Some Days Ashore...................................................................................................... 137

The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo........................................................................ 147

Aegri Somnia .............................................................................................................. 157

The Coral Realm......................................................................................................... 164

PART II.......................................................................................................................... 171

The Indian Ocean........................................................................................................ 171

A New Proposition from Captain Nemo..................................................................... 178

A Pearl Worth Ten Million ......................................................................................... 187

The Red Sea ................................................................................................................ 196

Arabian Tunnel ........................................................................................................... 206

The Greek Islands ....................................................................................................... 214

The Mediterranean in Forty-Eight Hours ................................................................... 224

The Bay of Vigo.......................................................................................................... 231

A Lost Continent......................................................................................................... 239

The Underwater Coalfields ......................................................................................... 247

The Sargasso Sea ........................................................................................................ 256

Sperm Whales and Baleen Whales ............................................................................. 263

The Ice Bank ............................................................................................................... 273

The South Pole............................................................................................................ 283

Accident or Incident?.................................................................................................. 293

Shortage of Air............................................................................................................ 300

From Cape Horn to the Amazon................................................................................. 308

The Devilfish .............................................................................................................. 316

The Gulf Stream.......................................................................................................... 325

In Latitude 47 degrees 24'........................................................................................... 334

A Mass Execution....................................................................................................... 340

The Last Words of Captain Nemo .............................................................................. 348

Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 354