20,000 Leagues under The Sea

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1. WillAdamsOct 2026
   Do you know if other of his works merit the sort of effort which has gone into re-translating and correcting _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_?

   I was very glad to re-read it when:

   https://www.usni.org/press/books/20000-leagues-under-sea

   was published.

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2. m0d0nne11Oct 2024
   Mysterious Island and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (the stilted, nearly verbatim French->English translations STRONGLY preferred! the "improved" translations fail to convey so much of the fascinating details...) and also The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Hitchhikers Guide, of course. And Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.
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3. achilleslinuxSep 2019
   I really like books written by Jules Verne. Those books were really ahead of its time. He was a prolific and best Sci-fi writer. I would like to mention few of his works like 20,000 leagues under the sea, journey to the center of earth and Around the World in Eighty Days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne
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4. pitajAug 2019
   Reminds me of two works of science fiction:

   20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

   and

   Red October

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5. officemonkeyFeb 2014
   A good translation of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" has the same issue. Verne shoehorns pretty much every interesting fact about the ocean into it.

   Both books are among my favorites, pretty much because of their dedication to the "medium."

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6. officemonkeyMay 2011
   Right now I'm reading "Game of Thrones" on my kindle. Before that I was on a Jules Verne kick: "Around the World in 80 Days", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth" and "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" are all great fun.

   Sometimes I even read something work-related: "Bureaucracy" by James Wilson and "Managing the Unexpected" by Weick and Sutcliffe.

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