20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Part 1

The year is 1866, and the world is in a panic. Ships from every nation are returning to port with their hulls smashed, reporting collisions with an enormous thing. Some say it is a floating reef, others claim it is a moving wreck, but you, Professor Aronnax, suspect something else.

From your hotel in New York, you have written articles suggesting it is a gigantic narwhal—a unicorn of the sea—possessed of incredible strength. The United States government is equipping a high-speed frigate, the Abraham Lincoln, to hunt this monster down.

Commander Farragut has sent you a letter: "If you will consent to join the Abraham Lincoln in this expedition, the Government of the United States will with pleasure see France represented in the enterprise."