{"product_id":"in-search-of-the-castaways-david-petault-9798343064551","title":"In Search of the Castaways (The Children of Captain Grant): A New Translation in Modern Accessible English","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe message was found inside a shark. Three versions of it, in three languages, each damaged differently by seawater - French, English, German - and from the three together, only one thing could be recovered with certainty: the latitude. 37  South. The longitude was gone.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLord Glenarvan assembles a party and sets out to find Captain Grant and the crew of the \u003ci\u003eBritannia\u003c\/i\u003e, somewhere along the entire 37th parallel. It crosses South America, Australia, and New Zealand. They will travel all of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe man who makes this possible - in theory - is Jacques Paganel, Secretary-General of the Paris Geographical Society, who has memorized the geography of every continent on earth and who joined the expedition by boarding the wrong ship. He knows everything about the southern hemisphere. He learned his Spanish from a Portuguese textbook. He is, in ways that become apparent with great regularity, simultaneously the party's most indispensable resource and its most reliable source of comic disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJules Verne serialized \u003ci\u003eIn Search of the Castaways\u003c\/i\u003e in 1867-68, as part of the \u003ci\u003eVoyages extraordinaires\u003c\/i\u003e - the series designed to render the world's geographic and scientific knowledge in the form of adventure fiction, so that readers absorbed what they needed to know without noticing that they were being educated. The novel is one of the series' fullest achievements: three continents, three major movements, a geographic puzzle whose structure determines the shape of the journey, and a cast large enough to carry the full tonal range from high adventure to the sustained comedy of a learned man who has never quite learned to function in the world he has memorized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe quartermaster Ayrton, whose treachery provides the Australian section with its human drama, will reappear in \u003ci\u003eThe Mysterious Island\u003c\/i\u003e - reformed, rehabilitated, the continuity between the two novels one of the more carefully constructed in the entire series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePropulsive, funny, geographically exact, and organized around the most elegant plot device in Verne's catalogue: the search that must cross three continents because the message only gave them half the answer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Petault,Jules Verne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798343064551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d","brand":"David Petault","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852485177599,"sku":"9798343064551","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-search-of-the-castaways-david-petault-9798343064551","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}