Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Verne's adventure to the depths of the sea with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Professor Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down and destroy a menacing sea monster. However, he discovers that the beast is metal – it is a giant submarine called the Nautilus built by the renegade scientist Captain Nemo. So begins an underwater adventure that takes them from the South Pole to the submerged lost city of Atlantis. From the grandpère of science fiction this is an adventure classic of deep-sea volcanoes, giant squid and one renegade scientist.

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Review

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

About the Author

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.