Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (I869) arid Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Veme himself travelled widely in Europe, North Africa and America and was a keen yachtsman. He divided his time between Paris, Amiens and his yacht, but for reasons which remain a mystery he suddenly sold his yacht in I886 and never travelled again. A month later he was shot twice by his mentally unstable nephew, leaving him permanently lame. Jules Verne died at Amiens in 19o5. After his death several posthumous works appeared, but it has since been discovered that Verne's son Michel wrote large chunks of them.
A mysterious creature, larger and more rapid than a whale, has been haunting the deep: Professor Aronnax has been invited to join a task force to rid the seas of the monster.
With him on the Abraham Lincoln are his ever-faithful servant, Conseil, and the harpooner Ned Land. Their glorious mission becomes a nightmare when they are thrown from their ship and taken aboard the "monster" itself: a man-made submarine - Nautilus - exploring the wonders of the underwater world. There they are the captives of the inscrutable Captain Nemo.
Resigned to their fate, they are shown unimaginable wonders of the oceans: the reef of coral that formed a cemetery, the ice floes of the South Pole, the huge oyster and its priceless pearl, the volcanic wonders of the lost land of Atlantis and a great many more extraordinary sights that were to compensate for their lack of liberty.
PART ONE
A Shifting Reef
Pro and Con
Just As Monsieur Wishes
Ned Land
Forward to Adventure
Full Steam Ahead
An Unknown Species of Whale
Mobilis in Mobili
Ned Land"s Tantrums
The Man of the Seas
The Nautilus
All by Electricity
A Few Figures
The Black Current
A Written Invitation
A Stroll on the Ocean Bed
A Submarine Forest
Four Thousand leagues under the Pacific
Vanikoro
The Torres Strait
A Few Days on Land
Lightning Action by Captain Nemo
Aegri Somnia---Bitter Dreams
The Coral Kingdom
PART TWO
The Indian Ocean
Another Excursion with Captain Nemo
A Priceless Pearl
The Red Sea
The Arabian Tunnel
The Greek Archipelago
Across the Mediterranean in Forty-eight Hours
Vigo Bay
The Lost Continent
Coal Mines under the Sea
The Sargasso Sea
Cachalots and Whales
Under the Ice Shelf
The South Pole
Accident or Incident?
Lack of Air
From Cape Horn to the Amazon
The Squid
The Gulf Stream
At Latitude 47.24" and Longitude 17.28"
A Hecatomb
Captain Nemo"s Last Words
Conclusion