20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Tyler Flint

                The book 20,000 leagues under the sea was published in 1870 by Jules Verne.  The book starts off with a mysterious creature that is wondering the sea and damaging ships. The creature is 25 feet long and is appearing at different places across the world in a matter of weeks or days. This gives you an idea for the great speed of this creature. Our main character Professor Pierre Aronnax is a Marine Biologist and assumes this creature is a type of Narwhal that hasn’t been classified yet. She believes this because of the triangular shaped puncture in the side of one of the ships, which could be explained by the Narwhals horn. A ship was specifically designed to go out and hunt this creature down; Ned Land is a very skilled with a harpoon so he was asked to come aboard the expedition, Professor Aronnax was asked to come aboard so that he could classify the creature. When they finally caught up to the creature, the creature had hit their propeller and knocked Ned Land, Professor Aronnax in the water. Conseil (Professor Aronnax’s assistant) had jumped in the water to help professor Aronnax. When in the water they found a platform to stand on. This platform was the top of the creature, it was made of steal. It turned out to be a submarine that was secretly made by a small group of people. The Captain had designed this submarine to be sustainable on only the materials he obtained from the ocean. This way he could stay at sea for the rest of his life and never have to go to land. Captain Nemo hated the corrupted world so he sentenced himself to exile at sea. The ship was all electric that he obtained power through the salt and phosphorus he found in the ocean. He hunted with pressurized air guns that had electric bullets and could kill any mammal with one hit. With everything Nemo had he was self-sustainable at sea for the rest of his life. The Crew let Ned and Professor Aronnax and Conseil aboard with the only rule that they could never leave because they know his secret.