![]() ![]() ![]() Conseil – Aronnax's Flemish servant, very devoted to him and knowledgeable in biological classification.Professor Pierre Aronnax – the narrator of the story, a French natural scientist.The title refers to the distance traveled under the various seas: 20,000 metric leagues (80,000 km, over 40,000 nautical miles), nearly twice the circumference of the Earth. Its depiction of Captain Nemo's underwater ship, the Nautilus, is regarded as ahead of its time, since it accurately describes many features of today's submarines, which in the 1860s were comparatively primitive vessels.Ī model of the French submarine Plongeur (launched in 1863) figured at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, where Jules Verne examined it and was inspired by it when writing his novel. The book was widely acclaimed on its release and remains so it is regarded as one of the premier adventure novels and one of Verne's greatest works, along with Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth. ![]() A deluxe octavo edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871, included 111 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou. The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's fortnightly periodical, the Magasin d'éducation et de récréation. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas ( French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne. ![]()
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![]() ![]() While an interesting concept, it does seem to get pretty repetitive as it continues to happen over the course of the story. In the titular story, fog enhances the gloomy atmosphere and is often followed by the appearance of the ghostly young man and the gruesome suicide of a woman he says will never find love. In true Junji Ito fashion, Lovesickness has a bleak narrative with disturbing artwork. Ryusuke has a dark secret he has hidden since his childhood that connects him with these disturbing new events, but I certainly won’t spoil that here. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, encountering this young man turns out to become a bad omen since his fortunes often lead to women committing suicide, afraid that they will never find true love. On foggy nights, many young women encounter a mysterious young man with pierced ears and black clothes. The town has a tradition where people stand on street crossroads and ask the first passerby they see to tell their fortunes. ![]() In Lovesickness, a young man named Ryusuke returns to the town he used to live in as a child. This story takes up more than half of the book, followed by a few shorter stories. I knew the story depicted on the front cover because it was an episode of the Junji Ito Collection anime. In thick fog, a girl turns on a street corner and encounters a creepy man ( Lovesickness, Pg. ![]() ![]() Gordon, working to slander the world’s leading coronavirus experts, including Shi Zhengli and Peter Daszak, during a global pandemic that has killed up to 20 million people. Most recently, he has joined the band of rogues and scoundrels, including the racist Nicholas Wade and “aluminum tubes” liar Michael R. ![]() Perhaps with similar sentiments, the Viscount returned to public life, elected by his aristocratic peers to the House of Lords in 2013, and has rebooted his career as a “science writer” to deny the existence of climate change, argue the genetic basis of race, and promote ideas associated with Social Darwinism. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o’ Wednesday. “What is honour?” asked Shakespeare’s corrupt and cowardly knight, Sir Falstaff. Thenceforward, it was assumed that Ridley would be seen not only as a crook and an incompetent, but a liar whom no one would take seriously on anything, much less the ethical conduct of others.īut since his misadventure in banking, which cost British taxpayers 37 billion pounds and led to tens of thousands of foreclosures, the 5th Viscount Ridley was not content to retreat to his estate, home to the largest open-pit mine in Britain. ![]() ![]() They demonstrated that he had openly and flagrantly lied to Parliament, writing in a letter, “we have no subprime loans,” while running advertisements reading “open for sub-prime business.” Matt Ridley testifies before the House of Commons Treasury Committee in 2007 ![]() ![]() The Map That Changed the World is a very human tale of endurance and achievement, of one man's dedication in the face of ruin. Finally, in 1831, this quiet genius - now known as the father of modern geology - received the Geological Society of London's highest award and King William IV offered him a lifetime pension. But instead of receiving accolades and honors, he ended up in debtors' prison, the victim of plagiarism, and virtually homeless for ten years more. Determined to expose what he realized was the landscape's secret fourth dimension, Smith spent twenty-two years piecing together the fragments of this unseen universe to create an epochal and remarkably beautiful hand-painted map. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell - clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world - making it possible, for the first time ever, to draw a chart of the hidden underside of the earth. ![]() ![]() In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. ![]() |