Captain Nemo

<p><strong><em>Captain Nemo</em> brings together two of Jules Verne's greatest adventure novels in one Positronic omnibus: <em>20000 Leagues Under the Sea</em> and <em>The Mysterious Island</em>.</strong> The title places Verne's most famous and enigmatic character at the center of the package where he belongs: commander of the submarine <em>Nautilus</em> master of the deep enemy of oppression scientific genius wounded exile and one of the defining figures of early science fiction.</p><p>In <em>20000 Leagues Under the Sea</em> Professor Aronnax Conseil and Ned Land are taken aboard the <em>Nautilus</em> and carried through a world beneath the waves: coral kingdoms shipwrecks giant sea creatures undersea forests polar ice and the dangerous mystery of Captain Nemo himself. In <em>The Mysterious Island</em> shipwrecked castaways struggle to survive on an uncharted island only to discover that an unseen intelligence has been watching over them-and that the shadow of Nemo reaches farther than they imagined.</p><p>Readers drawn to classic science fiction undersea adventure survival fiction lost-world stories Jules Verne and the origins of modern speculative adventure will find this omnibus a substantial journey through Verne's imagination. <em>Captain Nemo</em> is a strong discoverability title because it gathers the two novels most closely tied to Nemo's legend giving readers both the mystery of the <em>Nautilus</em> and the later revelation of the man behind it.</p>