Mysterious Island (1961 film) buried, but the rest escape and begin the journey home, vowing to continue Nemo's dream of achieving lasting peace throughout the world. The novel on which the film is based is a sequel to two other novels by Jules Verne, "In Search of the Castaways" (1867) and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1870). The first book featured the island, the pirates and a character Tom Ayrton who was marooned on a nearby island. The second book featured Captain Nemo and the "Nautilus" presumed lost in the maelstrom at the end of that novel. In "The Mysterious Island" (1874) after
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea outlawry is decisively ended by the combination of an international task force and the rebellion of his French captives. Though also widely published and translated, it never attained the lasting popularity of "Twenty Thousand Leagues". More similar to the original Nemo, though with a less finely worked-out character, is Robur in "Robur the Conqueror"—a dark and flamboyant outlaw rebel using an aircraft instead of a submarine—and its sequel "Master of the World". The novel was first translated into English in 1873 by Reverend Lewis Page Mercier. Mercier cut nearly a quarter of Verne's original text and made hundreds of translation