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When an unidentified monster threatens international shipping French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace After months of fruitless searching they finally grapple with their quarry but Aronnax Conseil and the brash Canadian harpooner Ned Land are thrown overboard in the attack only to find that the monster is actually a futuristic submarine the Nautilus commanded by a shadowy mystical preternaturally imposing man who calls himself Captain Nemo Thus begins a journey of 20000 leaguesnearly 50000 milesthat will take Captain Nemo his crew and these three adventurers on a journey of discovery through undersea forests coral graveyards milesdeep trenches and even the sunken ruins of Atlantis Jules Vernes novel of undersea exploration has been captivating readers ever since its first publication in 1870