Twenty. Thousand. Leagues. Under. The. Sea. “The bookseller said it’s in two parts, and this is the first. I thought that next year, if we keep saving, we can get the second—” She begins that instant. The narrator, a famed marine biologist named Pierre Aronnax, works at the same museum as her father! Around the world, he learns, ships are being rammed one after another. After a scientific expedition to America, Aronnax ruminates over the true nature of the incidents. Are they caused by a moving reef? A gigantic horned narwhal? A mythical kraken?
