Jules Verne fought hard for his Pole – a real epistolary duel ensued between him and his publisher. Hetzel proposed making Captain Nemo an abolitionist – an opponent of slavery, to which Verne fairly ...

(The North American pole of inaccessibility is on the Pine Ridge Reservation, in South Dakota ... Submerged in his steampunk submarine, Captain Nemo sought to keep his distance from terrestrial ...