This show is based on the book by the French writer Jules Verne. It is about a group of people who escaped from a Civil War battlefield by balloon and ended up on an island in the south Pacific. It seems uninhabited but a person called Captain Nemo is actually watching them all the time."Loosely" based on the novel by Jules Verne. In 1865 a group escapes from a Confederate prison in a balloon, only to be carried halfway around the world. They are shot down while ...