It was also the decade in which Jules Verne published 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The windmill, the telephone, and motion pictures were all invented in this decade. Despite the political instability, it was a time of revolutionary innovation. What must it have been like to be alive in 1870s? New empires and militarism were arising in Europe and Asia, and the United States was recovering from a grueling civil war. “With its untold depths, couldn’t the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn’t the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?” So begins not only one of the great adventure classics by Jules Verne, the ‘Father of Science Fiction’, but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to the South Pole. However, the “monster” turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive. Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster.
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