Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas An Underwater Tour of the World

He appearance of a monstrous beast in 1866 in several of the world's oceans has been the talk of the town. He animal, fast, fusiform and phosphorescent, was responsible for several shipwrecks, breaking the wood and steel of ships with colossal force. Returning from an expedition in Nebraska, Pierre Aronnax, substitute professor at the National Museum of Natural History, hypothesizes a giant narwhal.