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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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For the past 120 years, readers of English have known only a poor imitation of Jules Vernes classic French novel Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers and consequently relegated the writer to the category of a boys author. Since 1873 the standard English version has been Lewis Merciers mangled translation, a work thats filled with errors, mistranslations, and bogus additions, and missing nearly a quarter of Vernes original text.Now, thanks to the lifelong efforts of two Verne scholars, the Englishspeaking world at last has access to a definitive translation, the only English version based solely on the level of literary artist and scientific visionary, a category he has always enjoyed in Europe and Russia.Merciers act of literary vandalism went unnoticed until 1965, when New York University English professor Walter Miller discovered the missing text and began the restoration of the Verne masterpiece. After nearly thirty years of work, including rigorous examinations of his translation by experts in marine technology and biology, Miller teamed that Frederick Paul Walter in 1992 to create this landmark scientific and literary achievement.Restored to the volume along with the original woodcut illustrations are the entertaining and often prescient drams of Captain Nemo, widely considered the prototypical sciencefiction character. In this novel alone Verne has anticipated submarine diving planes, scuba gear, underwater laboratories, and marine ecological disasters. He also inspired largescale underwater mining and farming of flora and fauna, and electricity from thermoclines, all currently in development.Restoration of these visionary ideas and some twentythree percent of the original text is certain to elevate Vernes standing in American scientific and literary circles.
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