Vingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers

Jules verne was born in 1828 at Nantes, a city in the west of France on the Loire, yet having ocean com merce. He was gifted with an almost inexhaustible imagination which he put to use in the creation of a new style of fiction, — a skilful mingling of scientific and other facts with incidents of travel and romance. Rendered in this way somewhat instructive on the one hand and very amusing and animated on the other, his books soon became popular and are so to the present day.