Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Overview:

  • Title: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  • Author: Jules Verne
  • Year: 1993
  • ISBN-10: 1557508771
  • Publisher: Naval Institute Press
  • Price: $24.95
  • Pages: xxiv+392
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Introduction: Jules Verne, Man of the Twenty-first Century (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
  • Notes:
    • Translated by Walter James Miller and Frederick Paul Walter.
    • DJ states "The Completely Restored and Annotated Edition".
    • Title page has "The Definitive, Unabridged Edition Based on the Original French Texts" under the title. Not included as a subtitle. Also has "Newly Translated and Annotated by Walter James Miller and Frederick Paul Walter".
    • Number line is "9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2" but states below it it is First printing.
    • WorldCat: "Based solely on the original French version, this edition contains "the lost 23%" of Verne's original manuscript and corrects hundreds of errors and mistranslations."
    • No price on DJ.
    • Introduction ends on page xxii. Followed by a table title "Terms of Measurement" and a publisher's note.
    • Captain Nemo's Life Story is a newly translated excerpt from The Mysterious Island - Third Part, Chapter 16 L'île mystérieuse.
    • WorldCat lists the chapter titles.
    • Jacket design: Pamela Lewis Schnitter