Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Ocean, unlike the original "Nautilus". He is played in this version by the British actor James Mason, with an English accent. No mention is made of any Indians in the film. Finally, Nemo was depicted as Indian in a Soviet 3-episode TV film "Captain Nemo" (1975), which also includes some plot details from the "Mysterious Island", Jules Verne's sequel to the novel. , obsolete translation by Lewis Mercier, 1872 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A Tour of the Underwater World (, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the "Seas": A Tour of the Underwater World")
Jules Verne writer Adam Roberts, in an essay for "The Guardian" titled "Jules Verne deserves a better translation service", commented: "I'd always liked reading Jules Verne and I've read most of his novels; but it wasn't until recently that I really understood I hadn't been reading Jules Verne at all... It's a bizarre situation for a world-famous writer to be in. Indeed, I can't think of a major writer who has been so poorly served by translation." Similarly, the American novelist Michael Crichton observed: Since 1965, a considerable number of more accurate English translations of Verne have appeared. However, the highly criticized