Children of Captain Grant

Author: (French) Verne/J. / Xie Weiming
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Around the World in Eighty Days depicts Sir Gideon's quest to find Captain Grant, who perished somewhere near 37°S latitude. During a trial voyage of his luxurious yacht Duncan near the island of Alana, the crew captured a shark. Inside the shark's belly, they discovered a champagne bottle. From this container, they retrieved a document severely damaged; written in English, French, and German, the text was reduced to fragmented and indecipherable phrases. With the help of a few words from the English and German documents, Sir Gideon, his wife Helene, his captain John Mangles, and his cousin McNabbs managed to reconstruct the original French text. The story unfolds from there.