THE ARTICLES
1. From Birkenhead to Atlantis – The Merseyside Origins of Captain Nemo’s Nautilus.
2. Jules Verne’s love affair with Birkenhead.
3. Who was Jules Verne?
4. Understanding Jules Verne.
5. Jules Verne sets his novel The Floating Island (1895) in Birkenhead.
6. Jules Verne Sets His Classic Novel The Mysterious Island in Birkenhead.
7. The Ascent of the Volcano.
8. The Naming of Mysterious Island.
9. The Colonists make their home in ‘Granite House’ – The Great Culvert Sewer in Birkenhead.
10. The Seal Hunt on Hilbre Island.
11. The Orangutan Attack on Birkenhead.
12. The Pirate Attack on Birkenhead.
13. Why There is no Rock at Rock Ferry.
14. The Return of Captain Nemo.
15. Captain Nemo – The Story of My Life.
16. The Death of Captain Nemo. The End of Lincoln Island.
17. Jules Verne Pays Tribute to the Birkenhead and Liverpool Abolitionists.
18. Abraham Lincoln threatens War with Great Britain Over Events in Birkenhead.
19. The Secrets Of Dakkar’s Grotto.
20. The Mad Commodore.
21. Playing the Engineer Cyrus Harding in Mysterious Island are Real Life Business Partners Thomas Brassey of Birkenhead and the American Cyrus West Field.
22. Revealing Captain Nemo. Captain Nemo in Popular Culture.
23. Revealing Captain Nemo. Captain Nemo Is The Indian Prince Dakkar.
24. Revealing Captain Nemo. The Souls Of Captain Nemo.
25. Revealing Captain Nemo. Jules Verne In Conversation With Raphael Semmes.
26. Playing the Part of Pencroft in Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island.
27. Playing the Part of Jup the Enslaved Orangutan in Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island.
28. Playing the Part of Ayrton the Repentant Pirate in Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island.
29. Playing the Part of Neb, the Former Slave on Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island.
30. Who Were the ‘Birkenhead Friends’ of Jules Verne?
31. Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
32. Did Jules Verne Sets His Classic Science Fiction Novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth in Birkenhead?
33. Playing the Young Boy Herbert in Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island.
34. Did the Heroes of Birkenhead Help Win the Second World War?
35. The Last Soul of Captain Nemo.
36. Jules Verne Moves aside.
37. The Fifth Novel Revealed.
38. A Statement from Birkenhead Member of Parliament Mick Whitley.
39. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island – The Players.
40. Robert Louis Stevenson sets his classic novel Treasure Island In Birkenhead.
41. Robert Louis Stevenson Pays Tribute to Liverpool – The Town That Abolished Slavery in the British Empire.
42. Theodore Roosevelt’s Return to Treasure Island.
Special Feature – Around the World with Birkenhead’s Phileas Fogg.
