"Jules Verne was in a sense the director-general of my life. When I was not more than ten or eleven years old I read his Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and my young imagination was fired. This generation may have forgotten that Verne was a great scientist as well as the writer of the most romantic fiction of his day."
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Simon Lake, Submarine: The Autobiography of Simon Lake (New York: Appleton-Century, 1930), p. 10.
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Jules Verne
1828 – 1905
französischer Schriftsteller
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