Choose Your Own Adventure: Journey Under the Sea
"All systems GO. It's awesome down here." The book that kicked off the initial gamebook craze, Journey Under the Sea puts readers in the role of a deep sea explorer who comes equipped with a special sub called the Seeker, and an experimental diving suit designed to withstand the crushing depths, should you actually leave your sub for some insane reason. Your mission? Locate the lost city of Atlantis. Secondary mission: don't get eaten by creatures. The series was originally titled The Adventures of You , in 1976. Bantam Books changed the series title and published half a dozen volumes to kick the series off a few years later, including this volume. The rest, as they say, is history. The Choose Your Own Adventure series was aimed at young readers, and the narrative reflects this. Lots of short, basic sentences and light on immersion for an adult reader. For a young reader, though, the idea of piloting a mini-sub to the dark, uncharted realms of the deep is exciting...