In Search of the Castaways

In Search of the Castaways is a book by Jules Verne, first published in 1868. The fifth in the Extraordinary Voyages series, the book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle the captain had cast into the ocean after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland contact Mary and Robert, the young daughter and son of Captain Grant, through an announcement in a newspaper. The government refuses to launch a rescue expedition, but Lord and Lady Glenarvan, moved by the children's condition, decide to do it by themselves. This translation by Charles Francis Horne was first published in 1911.