20 000 Leagues Under The Sea

“In the year 1866 the whole maritime population of Europe and America was excited by a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon.” This is the first line of Jules Verne’s novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. I chose to read this novel because my grandfather spoke highly of it. He’d wanted me to read it for a while, so I downloaded the audiobook. I never got around to listening to it until I got this project. It seemed like a perfect opportunity to get it read. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is a classic of sorts, and for good reason. For a book published in 1870, this involves very modern thinking. At the time, this book seemed completely fictional. Any reader in the late 1800’s would have found this absurd, and possibly even foolish, but this stuff, this is real. This stuff is no longer a work of fiction. This stuff is now. Allow me to …show more content…
A professor of the Paris Museum, Pierre Aronnax, was asked to join the expedition to hunt down a creature that had been attacking ships. Pierre’s ship is sank by the creature after a long search. PIerre, his servant Conseil, and a Canadian harpooner by the name of Ned Land climb aboard the deck of a ship they mistakenly think is theirs. The captain of this ship allows them to stay on his nuclear submarine, the Nautilus. Captain Nemo explains that they plan never to return to land. Our three heroes are stuck in this sub, until it encounters an unknown ship off the coast of England. The ship on a revenge mission, tries to sink the sub, but Captain Nemo sinks it first. The Nautilus floats around for a few days, until it stumbles upon the Maelstrom. The Maelstrom is a deadly whirlpool, and the Nautilus is headed right for it. Pierre, Conseil, and Ned abandon ship and wash up on the shore of a Norwegian island. This is where Pierre Aronnax ends his tale, never to know what became of the Nautilus, her crew, or her