Order this book from Amazon.com 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne New York, New York: Penguin Books USA Inc., 1870 Recommended by: Robert D. Ballard, Ph.D. Jules Verne opened me up to fantasy. I loved 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Captain Nemo is who I always wanted to be. Here was a person who built his own submarine, using advanced technology, nuclear energy, before anyone even knew that it existed. So he was a technologist, but he was an adventurer. He explored beneath the sea. I always had the picture of being inside Captain Nemo's Nautilus. About the Book A prophetic fantasy of undersea exploration by the first master of science fiction.