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Introduction
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" is the representative work of the French science fiction and explorer Jules Verne, which tells the story of the naturalist Aronnas and others who traveled around the sea with Captain Nemo of the "Nautilus". In your reading, you can follow the "Nautilus" to enjoy the unique scenery of the Sea of Japan, the Solomon Islands, the Maldives, the Mediterranean, the Strait of Gibraltar, Antarctica, the Arctic Ocean and other places, enjoy the ever-changing underwater wonders, and learn about all kinds of marine animals and plants; You can also experience the ingenious combination of science and fantasy, understand the scientific and technological level of Europe in the 19th century and the social landscape at that time, and feel the author's exploration and thinking about science and technology and the future of mankind. Flip to the book and let's take a wonderful journey to the bottom of the sea together!
Table of Contents:
Part I. Chapter 1: The Flying Reef.
Chapter II: Pros and Cons.
Chapter 3 Listen to me, sir.
Chapter 4: Ned Rand.
Chapter 5 Adventure Forward.
Chapter 6 Full speed ahead.
Chapter 7 Whales of unknown species.
Chapter 8 Movement in Motion.
Chapter 9: Ned Rand's Wrath.
Chapter 10 The Sea People.
Chapter 11 "Nautilus".
Chapter 12 Everything Uses Electricity.
Chapter 13 Several Sets of Numbers.
Chapter 14: The Black Current.
Chapter 15 A Letter of Invitation.
Chapter 16: A Walk Through the Submarine Plains.
Chapter 17 The Underwater Forest.
Chapter 18: Four Thousand Miles Down the Pacific Ocean.
Chapter 19: The Vanikoro Islands.
Chapter 20 Torres Strait.
Chapter 21: A Few Days on Land.
Chapter 22: Captain Nemo's Lightning.
Chapter 23: Compulsory Sleep.
Chapter 24: The Coral Kingdom.
Part II. Chapter 1 The Indian Ocean.
Chapter 2: Captain Nemo's New Proposal.
Chapter 3 A Pearl Worth Ten Million.
Chapter 4: The Red Sea.
Chapter 5 The Arabian Tunnel.
Chapter VI The Greek Islands.
Chapter 7: Forty-Eight Hours in the Mediterranean.
Chapter 8 Vigo Bay.
Chapter 9: The Vanished Continent.
Chapter 10 Submarine Coal Mines.
Chapter 11 Sargassum Sea.
Chapter 12 Sperm Whales and Fin Whales.
Chapter 13: The Great Ice Sheet.
Chapter 14: Antarctica.
Chapter 15: A Big Accident or a Vignette.
Chapter 16 Hypoxia.
CHAPTER XVII. From Cape Horn to the Amazon.
Chapter 18: The Octopus.
Chapter 19 Gulf Current.
CHAPTER XX: 47°24 N', longitude 17°28 W'
Chapter 21: The First Major.
Chapter 22: Captain Nemo's Words.
Chapter 23: Epilogue.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea People's Education Edition Reading Curriculum Series The Ministry of Education Unified Compilation Language Designated Recommended Compulsory Reading List for Seventh Grade Volume II:
Chapter 1: The Flying Reef.
In 1866 there was a strange thing, a strange phenomenon that no one could explain and could not tell, and everyone may still remember it vividly. Not to mention that the port residents were distracted by all kinds of rumors, and the people in the inland were shocked, and even the people at sea were shocked. Merchants, shipowners, captains, captains, captains, naval officers of various countries, and the countries of the two continents** all expressed great concern about this matter.
Indeed, for some time now, quite a few ships have met a "behemoth" at sea. It was a long, shuttle-like object, sometimes phosphorescent and larger than a whale, and much faster than a whale.
The logbooks of various ships have recorded the appearance of this behemoth, saying that this object or this creature is extremely fast and powerful, as if it was born with a strong vitality. If it were a cetacean, it was much larger than all the whales that were scientifically classified at the time. Neither Cuvier, nor La Sepede, nor Monsieur Dimeri, nor Catlafarge, would admit the existence of such a great monster unless they had seen it, that is, unless they had seen it themselves.
According to the results of many observations, the average is (conservative estimate, the object is 200 feet long; Exaggerated estimates, this big creature is one nautical mile wide and three nautical miles long), and we can be sure that this behemoth will far surpass all the fish that ichthyologists have hitherto agreed upon, if it exists at all.
However, it really exists, and this existence is undeniable. And human beings have always been interested in magical things. Therefore, the appearance of this incredible monster is bound to cause a sensation all over the world; To dismiss it as nonsense is simply not possible.
Indeed, on July 20, 1866, the steam-engine ship "Governor Higginson" of the Calcutta-Bunak Steamship Company met this big man swimming five nautical miles off the east coast of Australia. At first, Captain Buck thought he had come across an unknown reef, and he was ready to calculate its exact location. But at this moment, this strange big guy suddenly spewed out two columns of water, fifty feet high, straight into the sky. Unless there is a geyser on the reef, the Governor Higginson is indeed a marine mammal. It's just that this animal is not yet known, and it can spew out jets of water mixed with air and vapor from its nostrils.
On July 23 of the same year, the West Indo-Pacific Steamship Company's "Christobar Cologne" saw the same scene in Pacific waters. It seems that this peculiar cetacean was astonishingly fast, and was able to swim from one place to another with great speed, for the "Governor Higginson" and the "Christopal Cologne" were seen in two different seas seven hundred nautical miles apart, and only two or three days apart.
Half a month later, 2,000 nautical miles from the "Christopal Cologne" meeting the big guy in the Pacific Ocean, the "Helvetia" of the National Steamship Company and the "Shannon" of the Royal Post Division were respectively at 42°15 north latitude on the Greenwich meridian when they were facing each other in the Atlantic between the Americas and Europe', longitude 60°35 W'at the same time, the monster was found. The "Helvetia" and "Shannon" were only a hundred meters long even from end to end, and it was estimated that the great monster was at least three hundred and fifty feet long, because the two ships were nothing compared to it. However, at that time, the largest whale in the waters around Kulamac and Umucurrik in the Aleutian Islands was only 56 meters long, and no one had ever seen more than that.
Reports followed: several recent discoveries of the Atlantic-crossing Pelle; The Etna, which ran the Izran route, brushed shoulders with the monster; the records made by the officers of the French destroyer "Normandy"; The precise direction as determined by Commodore James's staff aboard the "Lord Cleid". All these reports have provoked a strong reaction from the public. In countries where you like to talk wittyly, this matter is treated as a joke, but in those countries where you are serious and pragmatic, such as the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany, people are extremely concerned about it.
In major central cities, this monster has become a fashionable topic; In cafes, people talk about it; In the press, people are ridiculing it; Some even put it on stage. The tabloids have seized the opportunity to make up all kinds of bizarre stories as they want. Some of them couldn't come up with new tricks, so they published the giant monsters they tried to imagine, from the terrifying Moby Dick in the Arctic to the legendary Kraken, the giant sea monster in Scandinavia. Some people even brought out the antiques, including Aristotle and Pliny, who also believed that monsters existed. There's also Bishop Pontupidan's Norwegian fairy tales, Paul Egkid's travelogues, and so on. Finally, Mr. Harrington's honest and credible report was brought out. According to the report, he had seen a large serpent aboard the Castile in 1857, and that until that time it had only been seen on the surface of the sea where the old Arctic expedition ship "Constitution" sailed.
As a result, there was an endless debate between the credulous and the skeptics in academic circles and in scientific magazines. Everyone became extremely excited about the "monster problem". Journalists who believe in science have engaged in a lawsuit against journalists who believe in gods, and some have even started fighting over them, starting with sea snakes and eventually developing into personal attacks.