![]() ![]() ![]() A league in the book uses a metric measurement, which means there are four kilometres in one league, making the title 80,000 Kilometres Under The Seas in modern terms.Ī deluxe illustrated edition was published in 1871 which contained over 100 wonderful engraved illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou. Another common misconception about the novel is that the 20,000 leagues were a measure of how deep the characters went, but, in actual fact, it was a measure of the distance travelled across the globe. The original French title of Verne’s epic novel is Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, which when translated correctly into English is Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SEAS, not Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea as it has been published in many English editions. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Seas by French writer Jules Verne was published in 1870, but was originally serialized in a magazine called Magasin d’Éducation et de Récréation from March 1869 through June 1870. ![]()
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