![]() ![]() ![]() The submarine’s new passengers learn that Captain Nemo has built the vessel to isolate himself from world governments and to spend his lifetime exploring new worlds and conducting scientific research. They are soon abducted and brought inside the vessel to meet its eccentric commander Captain Nemo. After losing their first battle, the crew discover, to their surprise, that the supposed monster is rather a large metal body that travels under the water. When the US government eventually decides to destroy the monster, a group of whaling and marine biology experts from different nationalities led by Professor Arronax are invited to join the American ship Abraham Lincoln and engage in an expedition around the South American continent to search for the weird creature. His Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) centers around a sea monster that keeps on menacing and damaging ships and ocean liners in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. ![]() Jules Verne is probably the world’s first science-fiction novelist. ![]()
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