A Submarine Tour: High gloss

A Submarine Tour by Frank Balch

There is a certain aptness that today just happens to be the 198th birthday anniversary of the French author Jules Verne, because it is of the so-called “Father of Science Fiction” that I would now speak; specifically, of his novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which first appeared in book form in 1870. An immediate international best-seller, the book’s popularity enabled Verne to become a full-time writer, and is today looked upon as something of a seminal work;


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