Captain Antifer
The treasure is somewhere in the world. The latitude is known, the longitude is not. When a dying Egyptian millionaire reveals that he has buried an enormous fortune on an island and left its coordinates to the captain who once saved his life, the promise of wealth transforms an ordinary man into an obsessive hunter. But the longitude arrives decades later, delivered by a scheming notary with his own designs on the fortune. Thus begins a globetrotting pursuit that takes Captain Antifer and his greedy nephew from the shores of France to the edge of the Arabian Sea, chasing a promise that may be nothing more than a cruel joke. Verne's satirical masterpiece turns the adventure novel inside out: the treasure is a mirage, and the real story lies in what greed does to the men who chase it.
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