Book Report of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea(海底两万里英文

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

is a classic

science

fiction

novel by French writer

Jules Verne

published in

1870

. It tells

the story of

Captain Nemo

and his

submarine

Nautilus

as seen from

the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax. general.

As the story begins in 1866, a mysterious

sea monster

, theorized by

some to be a giant

narwhal

, is sighted by ships of several nations; an

ocean liner

is also damaged by the creature. The United States

government finally assembles an expedition in

New York City

to

track down and destroy the menace. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a

noted French

marine biologist

and narrator of the story, who

happens to be in New York at the time and is a recognized expert in

his field, is issued a last- minute invitation to join the expedition, and

he accepts.

Canadian

master

harpoonist

Ned Land and Aronnax's

faithful assistant Conseil are also brought on board.

The expedition sets sail from

Brooklyn

aboard a

naval

ship called

the

Abraham Lincoln

, which travels down around the tip of

South

America

and into the

Pacific Ocean

. After much fruitless searching,

the monster is found, and the ship charges into battle. During the

fight, the ship's steering is damaged, and the three protagonists are

thrown overboard. They find themselves stranded on the

the creature, only to discover to their surprise that it is a large metal