Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Classics To Go

Name: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Classics To Go
Author: Jules Verne

In the beginning of the story ships of several nations spot a mysterious sea monster; the creature also damages an ocean liner. The United States government finally assembles an expedition in to track down and destroy the menace. Professor Pierre Aronnax, an expert French marine biologist and narrator of the story, who happens to be in New York at the time, receives a last-minute invitation to join the expedition, and he accepts. Canadien master harpoonist Ned Land and Aronnax's faithful assistant Conseil are also brought aboard… (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne's collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. (Wikipedia)