{"product_id":"twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-david-petault-9798341119970","title":"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A New Translation in Modern Accessible English","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSomething is attacking ships in the world's oceans. It is fast, nearly indestructible, and capable of punching holes through iron hulls.\u003c\/b\u003e The scientific consensus, led by Professor Pierre Aronnax of the Paris Museum of Natural History, is that it must be a creature - a narwhal of extraordinary size, perhaps, something evolved in the ocean's unexplored depths. The consensus is wrong. It is not a creature. It is the Nautilus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd once Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner Ned Land find themselves aboard it - guests, prisoners, the distinction is never quite established - they will not be going home until Captain Nemo decides they will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJules Verne published \u003ci\u003eTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e in 1870, and it remains the most fully realized of all his creations: a novel in which the scientific imagination and the moral imagination operate at the same pitch of intensity, in which the wonders of the underwater world - the kelp forests, the drowned city of Atlantis glimpsed through a porthole, the South Pole reached by submarine - are inseparable from the question of the man who has made that world his permanent exile. Captain Nemo is one of the great figures of nineteenth-century fiction: a man of extraordinary cultivation and extraordinary fury, who has withdrawn from the human world for reasons the novel circles without fully revealing, and whose inner life remains finally unresolved - as oceanic, as deep, and as dark as the element he inhabits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty thousand leagues is the distance traveled. It is, to be precise, roughly twice the circumference of the Earth, conducted entirely below the surface, in a vessel that had never existed before Verne imagined it. This edition presents the complete text - restoring the chapters and passages removed by earlier English translations - so that the novel can be read as Verne wrote it, in its full scientific and human complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInexhaustible, strange, and as deep as it promises.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Petault,Jules Verne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798341119970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.02d","brand":"David Petault","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48996516823295,"sku":"9798341119970","price":17.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-david-petault-9798341119970","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}