Twenty Thousand Leagues, The Arabian Tunnel

A secret passage beneath the desert joins two seas, and the Nautilus threads it in the dark.

Retold for sleep from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, first published in 1870 and long out of copyright. The story is Verne's; every sentence here is our own.

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Marco Vella
Your storyteller
Marco Vella
Grounded, even, steady

Grounded and even, the same calm weight on every line, present without pushing, steady when the moment isn't.

About this session

Twenty Thousand Leagues, The Arabian Tunnel is a sleep story from Salūs, a long bedtime story for adults, read slowly at a bedtime pace by Marco Vella.

Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.