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A review by seano312
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers by Jules Verne

4.0

This is a classic book, and I'm really glad I read the Walter translation (which prides itself on being accurate.)

The story is well-known, but I think I'm not the target audience for this novel. This, like Moby Dick, is a novel of the sea and spends pages and pages describing the types of plants and animals below the waves.

Unfortunately I don't know a wrasse from a triggerfish so a lot of the details were lost on me. I think an annotated version (with hotlinks to pictures of the fish and plants described) would be great.