Mercier's translation remained the standard one for a hundred years and changes that he made to the French text have continued to be incorporated into more recent translations. The novel was first published in English in 1873, in an abbreviated translation by Lewis Page Mercier, a British clergyman. The greatest depth that the Nautilus descends to is four leagues. The "twenty thousand leagues" of the title refers to the distance traveled, six times the diameter of the Earth. In order to escape repression in his homeland, Nemo has built a submarine called the Nautilus and roams freely through the world's oceans in it. The main characters are a French scientist named Aronnax and the mysterious Captain Nemo. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a science fiction fantasy adventure novel by the French author Jules Verne. Front cover of an 1874 German translation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
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