Notes: Stated first edition. Copyright 1968. "The condensations in this volume have been created by The Reader's Digest Association, Inc." Only the genre title has been included. It is taken from "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, translated by Walter James Miller, (c) 1965 by Washington Square Press and published at $3.95." It begins on page 7 and ends on page 176. The abridgement begins with no changes from the Miller translation: "Eighteen sixty-six was marked by a strange occurrence, an amazing phenomenon that probably no one has yet forgotten. People living along the coasts, even people far inland, were disturbed by bizarre rumors. But seafaring men were especially upset."