SEGNALIBRO VERNE, TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES

French novelist, poet and playwright Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) is the author of some of the world's most famous adventure stories. Through his collaboration with publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel, Verne created the Voyages extraordinaires - a popular series of novels which included Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days. Original Art: An engraving depicting Captain Nemo observing "a squid of colossal dimensions". Era: Late 1800s. Region: France.