Captain Nemo

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• axegon_ · Dec 6, 2021 · Recommends

  …Magical Mountain: Thomas Mann * The Dark Tower: Stephen King(actually tons of King books - I am a bit of a fanboy) * Factfulness: Hans Rosling * William Blake: selected poetry * Dostoevsky: The idiot * Captain Nemo: Jules Verne * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Adams

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• opminion · Jun 1, 2012 · Mentions

  the quality of translation matters a great deal Indeed. The English translation of Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island" in Project Guttenberg is an "old" one which censors certain aspects of Captain Nemo's anti-colonial background.

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• jhbadger · Oct 20, 2024 · Mentions

  …member, as well as among imperialists across Europe, the Voyages became a casual frame of reference in justification of colonial expansion.", I don't see how this fits with Verne's most famous character, Captain Nemo. While his background was ambiguous in 20,000 Leagues, in The Mysterious Island it is established that he was an Indian who fought against colonialism in the failed 1857 rebellion and sees himself as…

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• todayiamme · Aug 12, 2014 · Mentions

  That's actually quite impressive and it ties into why I started the project. When I was a teenager I read a paper that talked about the drive used by Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. The magneto-hydrodynamic drive† basically tries to push seawater through a set of coils and, as you've said, it's very, very inefficient and currently impractical.…

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