After fruitlessly searching down the eastern coast of South America and over much of the Pacific, Lincoln happens on the “monster” southeast of Japan and attempts to subdue it with both cannon-fire and harpoon. Navy sends the steam frigate Abraham Lincoln to hunt the creature down, augmenting her crew with a French naturalist, Professor Pierre Aronnax – who narrates the tale – his servant Conseil, and American master harpooner Ned Land. When this “cetacean” collides with two merchant ships and nearly sinks them, the U.S. The year is 1866, and the maritime community is shaken by sporadic sightings of what appears to be a gigantic sea creature unlike any seen before. Verne’s plot in Twenty Thousand Leagues is relatively simple and serves largely as a framework for describing both the wonders of the underwater world and the technologies needed to realize the author’s prophetic vision of undersea travel and exploration. Then, in 1857, having married a young widow from Amiens with two children, he accepted employment as a stockbroker, presumably because it promised a more reliable income.
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Over the next several years, he published a series of short stories to no particular acclaim, served as secretary of the Théâtre Lyrique, and collaborated on an operetta libretto. In 1849, Verne passed his law degree, but his father grudgingly agreed to his remaining in Paris to pursue a literary career. There, provided an entrée by his uncle, he joined the literary circle of Alexander Dumas, pere et fils, and while continuing his legal studies, turned increasingly to writing plays, articles, and stories. Although his younger brother Paul became a naval officer, and Jules attempted to run away to sea in his early teens, his lawyer father intended that he should enter the legal profession and sent him to Paris in 1847 to study law. Jules-Gabriel Verne was born in 1828 in the French seaport of Nantes, upriver from the Bay of Biscay.
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