Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea: Verne : Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea - Brossura

Verne, Jules

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ISBN 10: 0460873547 ISBN 13: 9780460873543

Casa editrice: Phoenix, 1993

Riassunto

'A strange twilight world opened up before me, and I felt as the first man to set foot on another planet, an intruder in this mystic garden of the deep.'

When Professor Aronnax embarks on daring mission to hunt down and destroy a mysterious sea creature that's menacing shipping he quickly finds his quarry. But what he discovers turns out to be beyond his wildest imagination. The beast is man-made - a vast submarine called the Nautilus built by the renegade scientist Captain Nemo. And Aronnax and his men become his prisoners. Trapped onboard Nemo's advanced vessel on journey into inner space that takes them from the South Pole to the lost city of Atlantis.

More than just a thrilling adventure, Jules Verne's book was a window on the future, predicting with uncanny accuracy dramatic developments in deep ocean science and technology that were almost beyond imagination.

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Descrizione del libro:

As the poster for the movie had it: 'Terror lurks in the depths...'

L'autore:

JULES VERNE (1828-1905), was a French writer and pioneer of science fiction, is best known today for TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA(1870) and AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS (1873). He was born in Nantes, France and as a child, ran off to be a cabin boy on a merchant ship but was caught and returned to his parents. After being sent to Paris to study law, he soon dropped out and his father cut him off. This forced Verne to make money by selling his stories. He published his first novel, FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON, in 1863.

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• Editore: Phoenix
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0460873547
• ISBN 13: 9780460873543
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336