Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Illustrated Edition). Jules Verne, the celebrated French writer, inventor of the science fiction novel, and one of the world's most widely read authors. His astonishing works have accompanied us since childhood: Around the World in Eighty Days, The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain, The Mysterious Island, In Search of the Castaways, and, of course, the extraordinary, fascinating story of an underwater journey, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Professor of Biology Pierre Aronnax and harpooner Ned Land set off in search of a strange fish sighted by navigators in various parts of the world. Soon, however, the heroes are taken captive aboard the Nautilus by the mysterious Captain Nemo...
In this edition, the novel is published with illustrations by the remarkable Czech artist Zdeněk Burian.
