In Search of the Castaways

Description

In Search of the Castaways is a book by Jules Verne, first published in 1868. The fifth book 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 book has 154,768 words, 317 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1868. This translation by Charles Francis Horne was first published in 1911.

Production notes: This ebook of In Search of the Castaways was published by Global Grey in 2019, and updated on the 9th June 2024. The artwork used for the cover is 'Perilous position of H.M.S. Terror' by William Smyth.