20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne - Reviewed by Saeed Sidaoui

“20,000 leagues under the sea” it is an amazing fictional action packed novel that was first published in 1872.
It starts off in 1866 when newspapers all over the world are writing terrifying stories about a creature that has been terrorising the earth’s oceans.
Professor Pierre Aronnax and his servant and his master harpooner join the global hunt for a so called creature of the deep. They search and search again but like the rest of the planet they find nothing. One day when they fear all hope is lost they spot something far away in the ocean, as they approach the mysterious object in the distance they seem to realise that it is moving fast. As they approach it they come to realise that it is the mysterious creature of the deep after all. They are now on the chase to catch the monster, they harpoon the creature but the harpoons just seem to bounce right of its skin. As they continue in an attempt to kill the creature. The monster comes to a halt in the middle of the ocean and the professor and his crew stop their ship right next to the monster with harpoons ready. The monster is absolutely magnificent, it is shaped like an extremely large fish with a large metal fin at the top used to ram and destroy other ships. The camouflage of the ship is amazing it looks like a large fish, to their amazement people arise from the monster and board the professor’s ship. As they capture the professor and his crew and take them into the monster which they soon come to realise that it’s not a monster at all, it’s a submarine. As they are thrown into the submarine they become extremely scared and they expect anything. A man comes from a room and introduces himself to the professor and his crew, “Let me introduce myself, I am Captain Nemo captain of this ship. The Nautilus”. The professor and his crew grow to think that Captain Nemo is extremely mysterious and a little scary. They become members of the crew on the Nautilus and begin to terrorise waters and go on extremely exciting adventures like venturing out and discovering the lost city of Atlantis. There is an exciting twist at the end concerning captain Nemo and the Nautilus.
This book is absolutely amazing that’s why it has earned my favourite book of all time because it keeps you on the end of your seat the whole way through it.