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