In **Jules Verne’s *20,000 Leagues Under the Sea***, Professor Aronnax, his valet Conseil, and harpooner Ned Land join a U.S. expedition to hunt a mysterious “sea monster” terrorizing ships. The “monster” is revealed to be the **Nautilus**, a clandestine electric submarine commanded by the brilliant, wounded idealist **Captain Nemo**.
Illustration by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou - wikimedia 
Taken aboard, the trio embark on a grand tour of the world-ocean: a stroll through a submarine “forest,” coral cemeteries, pearl-beds and ship graveyards, the Antarctic trapped beneath pressure ice, an Atlantean ruin, and a nightmarish **giant squid** attack—until Nemo’s private war against empires pulls them into a final maelstrom. The book is structured as a string of crisp, self-contained set piece visual chapters.
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# See
- Under the Sea
- Sea Illustrations and Under the Seas
- Reimagining Nautilus
- French version with images on wikisource 
- English version extinct.fab.fish
- English version on archive.org