![]() ![]() However, in The Mysterious Island, the castaways find Ayrton in December 1866. In the subsequent novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, three main characters are taken aboard the Nautilus in November 1867. ![]() In Verne’s novel In Search of the Castaways (also called Captain Grant’s Children), the main characters abandon the traitorous Tom Ayrton on a deserted island in March 1865. Southard (July 2020) explains the time differences in detail, even providing the diagram: The blog post Jules Verne’s Calendar Problem by Steven R. But Captain Nemo is an old man who claims those events happened 16 years before = 15 year discrepancy. Main events of 20,000 Leagues happen in 1867, 2 years before meeting Nemo in TMI!. ![]() But Ayrton states in TMI that he was abandoned 12 years earlier = 10 years discrepancy Castaways/Grant is set in 1865, less than 2 years earlier. ![]()
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