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It is perhaps the most popular book of his sciencefiction series voyages extraordinaires 18631910. He is best known for his novels journey to the center of the earth written in 1864, from the earth to the moon 1865, twenty thousand leagues under the sea 18691870, and around the world in eighty days 1873. Vernes 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. Twenty thousand leagues under the sea alternate title. Twenty thousand leagues under the sea short answer test. Jan 01, 2001 twenty thousand leagues under the seas. Twenty thousand leagues under the sea summary supersummary. Ostensibly an oceanic travelogue, 20,000 leagues under the seainvolves rather less travel than it does log. Jules verne creates an underwater world that breathes taking.
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