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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Commercial Beauty

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: exploitation, luxury, nature, biodiversity, colonialism  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-10

Its skin, chestnut-brown above and silvery underneath, would have made one of those beautiful furs so sought after in the Russian and Chinese markets;...