Folio Society Published Works Number 3229
Verne, Jules - Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas
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Verne, Jules - Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas (Published in by The Folio Society in 2014. Introduced by Margaret Drabble. Illustrated by Jillian Tamaki. A revised translation of Jules Verne's extraordinary feat of the imagination, brought to life in a stunning new illustrated edition. The world is facing an unprecedented menace: a sea creature whose monstrous bulk and speed threatens even the sturdiest of ships. Invited to join the hunt for this elusive predator, French naturalist Pierre Aronnax discovers the far more astonishing truth. Under the seas lurks a giant submarine, governed by the mysterious Captain Nemo, one of fiction's most famous anti-heroes. Held captive on the Nautilus with his manservant Conseil and a bellicose harpooner named Ned Land, Aronnax soon learns that his days as a land-dweller may be over, while his aquatic adventures have only just begun …. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas book. A revised translation from the French by William Butcher. Bound in cloth. Set in Bulmer. 384 pages. Frontispiece and 8 colour illustrations. Printed endpapers. Book size: 9.5" x 6.25". Under the seas lurks a monster.. Jules Verne (1828 - 1905). From the Folio Society description. )
