VERNE Julius - Captain Grant's Children (2-volume set)

On July 22, 1864, a bottle with a letter enclosed in it was fished out off the coast of Scotland. The trilingual text, badly damaged by seawater, informed of the shipwreck of the "Britania", which happened in June 1862. The three survivors - among them the captain - wrote that they threw the bottle into the sea at 37° 11′ latitude and called for help. The rest was illegible, some words could only be guessed at.

To the rescue goes the noble Lord Glenarvan on his excellent yacht "Duncan". Also sailing with him are the children of Captain Grant, who commanded the lost ship. By mistake, Jacob Elijah François Marie Paganel, secretary of the Geographical Society of Paris, a man as scholarly as he is improbably absent-minded, also gets on board.

"Duncan" sails first to South America to look for traces of the castaways from the "Britannia" on the lands and oceans through which the 37th parallel runs.

Captain Grant's group of searchers goes through a variety of chilling adventures. He covers Patagonia by land, crosses the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean by ship. Then again by land Australia and New Zealand, to finally... But about this will find out those who will reach for this exciting book themselves. Suffice it to say that time and again the learned geographer packs travelers into trouble, to get them out of the worst trouble with equal ease.

We can only reveal that they manage to get out of the worst oppressions, most of which they owe to the mysterious Ayrton.

Published by Ex Libris, 2008.
Format 215 x 150 mm, 580 pages.

Elegant set, in imitation leather, decorated with gilt.