League (unit)
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A league is a unit of length. It was common in Europe and Latin America, but due to its highly inconsistent definition, it is no longer an official unit in any nation. Derived from an ancient Celtic u
Milestone in the Province of Ávila, Spain indicating a distance of 9 leagues to the city of Ávila
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne. It was originally serialised from March 1869 to June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's French
League (unit)
…metric lieue being exactly 4,000 metres (about 2.5 mi). It is this unit that is referenced in both the title and the body text of Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870). In some rural parts of Mexico, the league (Spanish legua) is still used in the original sense of the distance that can be covered on foot in…
Frontispiece of 1871 edition
Illustration by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou
Illustration of the Nautilus by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou
1956 cover of "Collins Seagull Library" abridged edition of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea