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
Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls? and that they were deposited in the caves near the Dead Sea (among other locations) by Jews fleeing the Roman army during the First Revolt" and that although the book is based in historical, archaeological, and paleographical evidence, "he also lets readers in on his personal efforts to question and oppose the scholarly status quo, leaving the impression of being self-serving." Ilene Cooper from Booklist suggest that public libraries carry this book for "its provocative assertions." Géza Vermes, wrote in his "An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls" (2000), that Golb is responsible for "another forceful attack on the