![]() Nemo seems to have resigned himself from the civilised world, with which his political ideals conflict significantly, and instead seeks out a life of academia and peace beneath the seas, where he has created his own autonomous micro-nation abord his ship. When Verne isnt listing things, hes tracing the journey of the Nautilus, a vast submarine vesseland admittedly an awesome creation for its timecalled home by the hermit-like, nihilistic Captain Nemo. ![]() A better title might be Jules Vernes Taxonomy of Fish (Unabridged). While at least these lists can be skimmed over in book format, spare a thought for those of us enduring the same in an audio version. ![]() ![]() Ostensibly an oceanic travelogue, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'involves rather less travel than it does log: comprising for the most part long, hideously boring lists of marine life and scientific definitions and discussions of the same, its a lengthy Wikipedia entry without a moderator swinging by to do a clean-up. ![]()
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