ARGUMENT

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers,
Indonesia: 60.000 mil di bawah laut. ) is a classic science Iiction novel by French writer Jules
Verne published in 1870. It tells the story oI Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as
seen Irom the perspective oI ProIessor Pierre Aronnax. The original edition had no
illustrations; the Iirst illustrated edition was published by Hetzel with illustrations by
Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou. The title reIers to the distance traveled while under
the sea and not to a depth, as 20,000 leagues is over six times the diameter oI Earth. The
greatest depth mentioned in the book is Iour leagues. A literal translation oI the French title
would end in the plural "seas", thus implying the "seven seas" through which the characters
oI the novel travel. However, the early English translations oI the title used "sea", meaning
the ocean in general. As the story begins in 1866, a mysterious sea monster, theorized by
some to be a giant narwhal, is sighted by ships oI several nations; an ocean liner is also
damaged by the creature. The United States government Iinally assembles an expedition in
New York City to track down and destroy the menace. This story is so interested. The writer
take us to imagine how beautiIul the animals under the see and some impressive places. We
also could see the brave man who bring the Nautilus sails the ocean.