20,000 Leagues Under the Sea---Illustrated Expert Guide to World Literary Classics

Author: Jules Verne
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: China's set of encyclopedic color picture classic reading! Includes expert introductions: background knowledge / author introduction / work overview; exclusively introduces exquisite illustrations by famous Italian artists; it is both a literary classic with beautiful color illustrations and an encyclopedia about the classic. The news of a huge unidentified creature swimming in the ocean spreads rapidly in Europe and America. The US Navy sails to capture this monster but suffers a crushing defeat and returns, leaving the ship's biologist Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and the Canadian whaler Ned Land stranded at sea, only to board the monster. It turns out that this monster is a submarine called the Nautilus. From then on, they embark on a mysterious underwater journey aboard the Nautilus. The Pacific, Indian Ocean, Atlantic, Red Sea, Mediterranean, Antarctica, and the entire marine world become their travel destinations. Like the biologist Professor Aronnax in the novel, the various creatures appearing in the story are described and explained in detail. This work was serialized in the magazine Educational and Entertaining for over a year and received excellent feedback. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea can be said to be one of Verne's works where literary and scientific elements are best expressed. In Verne's hands, this novel is almost like a heroic epic or a television drama series, captivating readers until they cannot put it down. While reading, readers can fully unleash their imagination, imagining the mysterious wonders of the deep sea, and following Captain Nemo, turning the Atlantic, Red Sea, Mediterranean, Antarctica, and the entire marine world into their own travel destinations.