
For a year, ships have come home with the same impossible story, and the Scotia with a triangular hole cut through steel plate. You play Professor Pierre Aronnax, stranded in a New York hotel with an unshakeably patient assistant and six theories you have already rejected before breakfast. Then a navy envelope arrives: the Abraham Lincoln sails on the afternoon tide and wants a naturalist aboard. Conseil packs two trunks and leaves one small case empty on the bed.
Read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas