{"id":5522,"date":"2023-04-21T15:52:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T15:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kildarelibrariesblog.com\/?p=5522"},"modified":"2024-02-26T16:48:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T16:48:01","slug":"book-review-20000-leagues-under-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/book-review-20000-leagues-under-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-37.png?w=200\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6377\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Author:<\/strong> Jules Verne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Genre:<\/strong> Adult Fiction, Science fiction. Adventure fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Review by:<\/strong> Chantelle, LCA Intern for Library HQ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong> In 1866 news spread like wildfire that a terrifying creature was haunting the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oceans. Professor Pierre Aronnax, along with Conseil as well as the master harpooner Ned Land, embark on the global hunt to track down this monstrous lurking creature, only to find themselves captives on the Nautilus\u00e2\u20ac\u201ca futuristic submarine designed by the equally terrifying captain Nemo. Forced to remain prisoners in the idiosyncratic Nautilus, the crew find themselves discovering not only the magnificence of the ocean, but the deep dark truth about Captain Nemo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Review:<\/strong> Quoted as being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Father of Science Fiction\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, Jules Verne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s novel <em>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea <\/em>is an exciting adventurous novel with plenty of intriguing concepts as well as unique descriptive language. The characters in this novel embark on a mission to track down a beast lurking in the sea and instead find themselves thrown head first into the mysterious ocean, along with it its equally mysterious counterpart \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Captain Nemo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This riveting novel is suitable for young and old. It is definitely a tale you do not want to miss out on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you like the sound of this book, place a request on it on our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kildare.spydus.ie\/cgi-bin\/spydus.exe\/FULL\/WPAC\/BIBENQ\/172898237\/1335766,2\">Library Catalogue<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Jules Verne Genre: Adult Fiction, Science fiction. Adventure fiction Review by: Chantelle, LCA Intern for Library HQ Synopsis: In 1866 news spread like wildfire that a terrifying creature was haunting the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oceans. Professor Pierre Aronnax, along with Conseil as well as the master harpooner Ned Land, embark on the global hunt to track [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182174489,"featured_media":6376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33993,162706,6925997],"tags":[771541787,7215,560765,702194613,1733],"class_list":["post-5522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult","category-adult-fiction","category-book-reviews-and-recommendations","tag-adult-fiction","tag-book-review","tag-jules-verne","tag-kildare-libraries","tag-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182174489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6378,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions\/6378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}