In Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant
In Search of the Castaways, first published in French in 1867 and 1868, is one of Jules Verne's great voyages around the world. When a shark caught off Scotland yields a bottle holding a damaged message from the shipwrecked Captain Grant, Lord and Lady Glenarvan set out in their yacht Duncan with the captain's two children to find him. The only clue is a latitude, and the search leads them across South America along the thirty-seventh parallel, then through Australia and New Zealand, helped and hindered by the absent-minded geographer Jacques Paganel. Packed with adventure, landscape and science, it is told in the English version from Charles F. Horne's edition of Verne's works. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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