Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. Published in French as L'Île Mystérieuse in 1874, this novel is a sequel to Verne's earlier Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escape the American...

Aboard the Abraham Lincoln, an American frigate, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil assist crew on an expedition in search of a ship-destroying monster. A sudden collision hurls Aronnax, Conseil, and one other crew member into the sea. They find safety on the very menace they had been hunting, which they discover is the futuristic submarine the Nautilus piloted by the enigmatic Captain Nemo-inventor, musician,...

Les aventures extraordinaires d'un emblématique capitaine, héros romantique en quête d'un apaisement qu'il poursuit sans jamais l'atteindre Vingt mille lieues sous les mers est un roman d'aventures de Jules Verne, publié en 1870. Il est le sixième de la série des Voyages Extraordinaires; il fait suite aux Enfants du capitaine Grant et se complète par l'Île mystérieuse. Un monstre marin de proportions gigantesques répand la terreur sur...

Gabriel Nemo has never been your normal, everyday twelve-year-old. As a descendant of the famous Captain Nemo, he's determined to use his Nemotech legacy for good. He and his best friends Peter and Misty spend their days studying at the elite Nemo Institute and in their spare time, run rescue missions in Gabriel's submarine The Obscure. But when a mysterious organization using advanced technology attacks the Institute and kidnaps Gabriel's mother,...