<P> In 1998 William Butcher issued a new, annotated translation from the French original, published by Oxford University Press, ISBN 0 - 19 - 953927 - 8, with the title Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas . He includes detailed notes, an extensive bibliography, appendices and a wide - ranging introduction studying the novel from a literary perspective . In particular, his original research on the two manuscripts studies the radical changes to the plot and to the character of Nemo forced on Verne by the first publisher, Jules Hetzel . </P> <P> One or more of these recent English translations uses the word "frogman" uniformly and wrongly to mean a diver in standard diving dress or similar, to translate French scaphandrier . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (May 2015) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (May 2015) </Td> </Tr>

Where does 20000 leagues under the sea take place