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Who is the real Andre Nemo, the man behind the Jules Verne's classic novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"? 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 Nightingale, is pressed into service by the ruthless Robert the Conqueror, and, ultimately, wages war on War itself as the captain of his greatest creation: the legendary underwater vessel "Nautilus. Jules Verne becomes his childhood friend who bestows immortality upon the captain's exploits, and both love a remarkable woman to the very end.