Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
by Sam Arnold-Boyd on Nov.26, 2013, under Adventure, Classic, Student Reviews
Review by Noah D.
Who would like this book? This book is very long with lots of details. I think that young adults and adults who like adventure would enjoy this book more than teenagers. It took a long time to read this book, but I liked it.
The goods on this book: The United States government hires Professor Aronnax, his assistant Conseil, and a master harpoonist named Ned Land to find a sea monster in the Pacific Ocean. They join an expedition from New York on the USS Abraham Lincoln. The three men find that the monster is actually a submarine after it attacks the Navy vessel, and the men fall overboard and get captured by its leader, Captain Nemo. Arronax, Conseil, and Ned Land can never leave this submarine because Captain Nemo is mad at his homeland and wants to stay away from civilization forever and study under the water and marine biology. Captain Nemo is very mysterious and smart, and he designed this submarine called the Nautilus. The Nautilus travels all over the world to places like the South Pole, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, the Antarctic, and the lost world of Atlantis. When it returns to the Atlantic ocean, a giant squid attacks the propeller, and eats a crew member. The Nautilus is attacked by a ship at the end of the book, and Arronax, Conseil, and Ned Land want to be released and go with the other ship back to being free. Captain Nemo ends up sinking this other ship and killing all the crew inside it. The end of the book has Captain Nemo becoming really sad and depressed, and he lets the Nautilus wander into a huge whirlpool off the coast of Norway. Professor Arronax, Conseil, and Ned Land all escape before the Nautilus goes into the whirlpool, but no one knows what happened to Captain Nemo or his crew.
The details: 371 pages; 1870 (original date) Review by Noah D.
