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Twenty Thousand 
Leagues Under 
the Seas 
 
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 
14. The Black Current 68 
15. An Invitation in Writing 76 
16. Strolling the Plains 82 
17. An Underwater Forest 86 
18. Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific 91
19. Vanikoro 96 
20. The Torres Strait 103 
21. Some Days Ashore 109 
22. The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo 117 
23. "Aegri Somnia" 126 
24. The Coral Realm 132 
 
SECOND PART 
1. The Indian Ocean 138 
2. A New Proposition from Captain Nemo 145 
3. A Pearl Worth Ten Million 152 
4. The Red Sea 160 
5. Arabian Tunnel 170 
6. The Greek Islands 176 
7. The Mediterranean in Forty-Eight Hours 184 
8. The Bay of Vigo 191 
9. A Lost Continent 199 
10. The Underwater Coalfields 206 
11. The Sargasso Sea 214 
12. Sperm Whales and Baleen Whales 220
13. The Ice Bank 228 
14. The South Pole 236 
15. Accident or Incident? 246 
16. Shortage of Air 252 
17. From Cape Horn to the Amazon 259 
18. The Devilfish 266 
19. The Gulf Stream