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The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in
the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during
the siege of Richmond, Verginia, the capital of the Confederate
Stetes of America. As famine and death ravage the city, five
northern prisoners of war decide to escape by the unusual means of
hijacking a balloon. The escapees are Cyrus Smith, a tailroad
engineer in the Union army his black manservant Nab (short for
Nabuchodonozor), a former slave who had been freed by Smith; the
sailor Bonadventure Pencroff (who is addressed only by his surname,
but his "Christian name", Bonadventure, is given to their
boat); Harbet Brown (called Herbert in some translations), a young
boy whom Pencroff raises as his own after the death of his father
(Pencroff's former captain); and the journalist Gedeon Spilett. The
company is completed by Cyrus' dog "Top".






After flying in stormy weather for several days, the group crash-lands on a
cliff-bound, volcanic, unknown (and fictitious) island, described as
being located at 34°57′S
150°30′W, about 2,500 kilometres east of New Zealand. Its
name it "Lincoln Island" in honor of American President
Abraham Lincoln. With the knowledge of the brilliant engineer Smith,
the five are able to sustain themselves on the island, producing
fire, pottery, bricks, nitroglycerin, iron, a simple electric
telegraph a home on a stony cliffside called "Granite House",
and even a seaworthy ship.





During their stay on the island, the group endures bad weather, and adopts
and domesticates an orangutan, Jupiter, in brief Jup.









There is a mystery on the island in the form of an unseen deus ex machina,
responsible for Cyrus' survival after falling from the balloon, the
mysterious rescue of Top from a dugong, the appearance of a box of
equipment (guns,ammunition and tools.), the delivery of a distress
message from another island, and other seemingly inexplicable
occurrences.






The group finds a message in a bottle from Tom Artyon directing them to
rescue a castaway on nearby Tabor Island. On the return voyage to
Lincoln Island, they lose their way in a tempest but are guided back
to their course by a mysterious fire beacon.










Ayrton's former crew of pirates arrives at Lincoln Island to use it as their
hideout. After some fighting with the protagonists, the pirate ship
is mysteriously destroyed by an explosion. Six of the pirates survive
and fire upon Harbert, seriously injuring him. They pose a grave
threat to the colony, but suddenly the pirates are found dead,
apparently in combat, but with no visible wounds. Harbert contracts
malaria and is saved by a box of sulphate of quinine, which
mysteriously appeared on the table in the Granite House.





The secret of the island is revealed when it is discovered to be Captain
Nemo's hideout, and home port of the Nautilus. Having escaped the
Maelstrom at the end of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the
Nautilus sailed the oceans of the world until all its crew except
Nemo had died. Now an old man with a beard, Nemo returned the
Nautilus to its secret port within Lincoln Island. Nemo had been the
savior of the heroes, providing them with the box of equipment,
sending the message revealing Ayrton, planting the mine that
destroyed the pirate ship, and killing the pirates with an "electric
gun". On his death bed Captain Nemo reveals his true identity as
the lost Indian Prince Dakkar, son of a Raja of the then independent
territory of Bundelkund and a nephew of the Indian hero Tippu-Sahib.
After taking part in the failed Indian Rebellion of 1857, Prince
Dakkar escaped to a deserted island with twenty of his compatriots
and commenced the building of the Nautilus and adopted the new name
of "Captain Nemo". Nemo tells his life story to Cyrus Smith
and his friends and then dies, crying "God and my country!"
The Nautilus is scuttled and serves as Captain Nemo's tomb.





Afterward, the island's central volcano erupts, destroying the island. Jup the
orangutan falls into a crack in the ground and dies. The colonists,
forewarned of the eruption by Nemo, find themselves safe but stranded
on the last remaining piece of the island above sea level. They are
rescued by the ship Duncan, which had come to rescue Ayrton but were
redirected by a message left on Tabor Island by Nemo.