Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Twenty Thousand

Leagues Under

the Sea





JULES VERNE



An Underwater Tour of the World




Translated from the Original French

by F. P. Walter




With the Paintings of Milo Winter


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CEDAR POST PUBLISHING * HOUSTON, TEXAS


Text Prepared by:  F. P. Walter, 1433 Cedar Post, No. 31,
Houston, Texas 77055.  (713) 827-1345


A complete, unabridged translation of Vingt milles lieues sous les
mers by Jules Verne, based on the original French texts published
in Paris by J. Hetzel et Cie.  over the period 1869-71.


The paintings of Illinois watercolorist Milo Winter (1888-1956) first
appeared in a 1922 juvenile edition published by Rand McNally & Company.


VERNE'S TITLE

The French title of this novel is Vingt mille lieues sous les mers.
This is accurately translated as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the SEAS--rather than the SEA, as with many English editions.
Verne's novel features a tour of the major oceans, and the term Leagues
in its title is used as a measure not of depth but distance.  Ed.


Contents


Color Plates vii

Introduction ix

Units of Measure xii



FIRST PART



1.  A Runaway Reef 1

2.  The Pros and Cons 6

3.  As Master Wishes 10

4.  Ned Land 14

5.  At Random! 19

6.  At Full Steam 24

7.  A Whale of Unknown Species 30

8.  "Mobilis in Mobili" 35

9.  The Tantrums of Ned Land 41

10.  The Man of the Waters 46

11.  The Nautilus 53

12.  Everything through Electricity 58

13.  Some Figures 63