Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

出版者:Naval Inst Pr

作者:Verne, Jules

页数:416

出版时间:1993-9

价格:$ 41.75

装帧:Pap

isbn号码:9780870216787

具体描述

For the past 120 years, readers of English have known only a poor imitation of Jules Verne's classic French novel Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers and consequently relegated the writer to the category of a "boy's author." Since 1873 the standard English version has been Lewis Mercier's mangled "translation," a work that's filled with errors, mistranslations, and bogus additions, and missing nearly a quarter of Verne's original text.

Now, thanks to the life-long efforts of two Verne scholars, the English-speaking world at last has access to a definitive translation, the only English version based solely on the level of literary artist and scientific visionary, a category he has always enjoyed in Europe and Russia.

Mercier's act of literary vandalism went unnoticed until 1965, when New York University English professor Walter Miller discovered the missing text and began the restoration of the Verne masterpiece. After nearly thirty years of work, including rigorous examinations of his translation by experts in marine technology and biology, Miller teamed that Frederick Paul Walter in 1992 to create this landmark scientific and literary achievement.

Restored to the volume along with the original woodcut illustrations are the entertaining and often prescient drams of Captain Nemo, widely considered the prototypical science-fiction character. In this novel alone Verne has anticipated submarine diving planes, scuba gear, underwater laboratories, and marine ecological disasters. He also inspired large-scale underwater mining and farming of flora and fauna, and electricity from thermoclines, all currently in development.

Restoration of these visionary ideas and some twenty-three percent of the original text is certain to elevate Verne's standing in American scientific and literary circles.

读后感

人类在进化发展道路上不断前行的同时，生存领域也在不断地扩大，从依水而生到散居各地，人类在孜孜不倦的探寻这个世界的各个角落，在《海底两万里》成书的1869年，人类对于生命起源之处——海洋依旧无能为力，但是人类那永不停歇的探险精神与求知欲却早已经带我们去到海洋深处...  

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有一段时间 我很痴迷海 那种感觉 是一种对美好的向往 要知道 地处在“天下之胆”的荆州 那平原 那长江就像噩梦一样挥之不去 我是个不安分的人 想要阅山 想要刺海 大海啊 儿时所能想象到的大海都是书本上的感情 那是别人的感情 不是自己的感情 就像我一直以为这本书...

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