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This author wrongly described part of the African interior as a desert in a novel in which the servant Joe Wilson and hunter Dick Kennedy assist Dr. Samuel Ferguson. In a novel by this author, a man is arrested in Liverpool after being mistaken for the bank robber James Strand, making him miss a train on a day he thinks is December 21. The remains of the Battle of Vigo Bay are described (20[1])in a novel by this author, in which the (*) Abraham Lincoln's passengers Conseil (10[1])("con-SAY") and Ned Land help pursue a sea monster that turns out to be a submarine operated by Captain Nemo. For 10 points, what author's adventure novels include Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Jules Verne [or Jules Gabriel Verne] (The first line references Five Weeks in A Balloon.)
<Literature - European Literature - Long Fiction>
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TournamentEditionExact Match?TUHConv. %Power %Neg %Average Buzz
2025 PACE NSC06/07/2025Y1100%0%0%126.00