Captain Nemo

Most readers know Capain Nemo only as the enigmatic protagonist of Jules Verne's classic novel 20，000 Leagues Under the Sea. But what if Nemo was a real man， whose actual life was more fantastic and adventurous than all the fictions it inspired?

Here is the epic tale of Andre Nemo， the man behind the myth. The free-spirited and inventive son of a French shipbuilder， Nemo goes to sea as a cabin boy， faces marauding pirates and bloodthirsty sharks， is marooned for years on a mysterious island， battles prehistoric monsters long believed extinct， journeys to the center of the Earth， balloons across Africa， escapes from Arab slavers， discovers the fabled city of Timbuktu， endures a plague of locusts， survives the Charge of the Light Brigade， tends to the wounded with Florence Ni