under the sea

The novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is an outstanding adventure book. The novel's setting is at sea around the Atlantic ocean. This novel is not a fast paced book such as James Bond. Though the novel is very interesting and contains many intriguing moments it might not be situated to certain peoples interest/expectations for adventure books. This novel brings ethnical matters on the table from the time the novel was written. Some of these were the hunting for whales and seals. The first couple of chapters have a reader considering many options to what could be sinking all these revolving ships. The author pursues the reader to believe it is a creature from the sea. As one continues reading they realize that this “creature” is not a creature after all, it turns out to be a submarine. Reading this novel in our time period does not make this very fascinating but on the contrary during the time the novel was written this was a very new and difficult aspect of life to witness. The novel follows up with the explaining why the submarine captain would sink ships. As this is unveiled the professor begins to witness the life under the sea. The professor becoming captive did not turn out to be as expected, it was completely opposite as he and his ship members were shown some of the locations of the sunk vessels. They also got to see many living creatures as they continued these adventures to the sunken vessels.