Cover of a Russian publication of Jules Verne’s ‘The Mysterious Island’, photo: publisher’s promotional materials The name and nationality of the captain of the Nautilus became known ... the original ...

Nautilus’s writer James Dormer hasn’t just made all of this stuff up. In Verne’s original (and Nemo also appears in Verne’s ...

Many English-language commentaries have concentrated on the workings of the Nautilus, but Verne emphatically ... but elsewhere in the book Nemo is implied to be Polish, in which case his enemy would ...