I recently read Jules Verne’s 1871 classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea—and found myself as enthralled as when I read the comic book version as a scrawny kid.
Three men lost at sea are taken aboard the Nautilus, a secret submarine that traverses the world’s oceans because Captain Nemo never wishes to live on land again. Here the narrator, Professor Aronnax, walks on the seafloor for the first time: