In Search of the Castaways: A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of His Children and Friends in His Discovery and Rescue
1867
In Search of the Castaways: A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of His Children and Friends in His Discovery and Rescue
1867
When Lord Glenarvan's yacht catches a shark during a trial voyage, the crew discovers a bottle washed up in the beast's belly. Inside: a desperate message from Captain Grant, shipwrecked somewhere in the world with two sailors. Only fragments remain - a cry for help, coordinates half-eaten by salt water, the word Patagonia. The captain's children, Robert and Mary, refuse to let their father vanish into oblivion. And so begins one of Verne's most sweeping adventures: a rescue mission that will carry this determined crew across three continents, from the wilds of Patagonia to the shores of Australia and beyond. What follows is Verne at his most exhilarating - a globe-trotting pursuit through treacherous terrain, narrow escapes, and encounters with strangers who become either saviors or threats. Young Robert Grant, barely more than a boy, must grow into the hero his father's survival demands. It is a story about the stubbornness of love - the refusal to abandon those we owe everything to, and the wild places where that refusal leads us.
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“Many come to seek fortunes who only find trouble and sorrow, and then they throw the blame on chance, and forget the true cause is their own idleness and vice and want of commonsense. Whoever is sober and industrious, honest and economical, gets on.””
— Jules Verne
“The fewer one's comforts, the fewer one's needs; and the fewer one's needs, the greater one's happiness.””
— Jules Verne
“When the heart and the reason are struggling, it is generally the heart that wins the mastery.””
— Jules Verne
“Luego fue a la casa de Paddy O’Moore para esperar la oportunidad de robar algún barco.””
— Jules Verne
“Luego, ciertos comportamientos extraños le habían hecho sospechar del criado.””
— Jules Verne
“cordilleras chilenas con la ayuda de unas mulas; el resto de la gente iría en el Duncan por la costa.””
— Jules Verne
“-¡Cómo! ¿Creéis, Lady Elena, que no se puede ser feliz en una isla desierta?-No, no se puede. El hombre está formado para la sociedad, no para el aislamiento. La soledad no puede engendrar más que desesperación. La cuestión es de tiempo. Es posible que en un principio los cuidados de la vida material, las necesidades de la existencia, distraigan al desgraciado que acaba de librarse del furor de las olas; es posible que las exigencias de la situación presente le hagan olvidar las amenazas del porvenir; pero después, cuando se encuentra solo, lejos de sus semejantes, sin esperanza de volver a su país y al lado de aquellos a quienes ama, ¿cuánto debe su pensamiento minar su cerebro, cuánto debe sufrir? Su islote es el mundo entero. Toda la Humanidad se encierra en él, y al llegar a la muerte, muerte espantosa en el abandono en que se encuentra, está como estará el último hombre en el último día del mundo. Creedme, Monsieur Paganel, es preferible no ser el último hombre.””
— Jules Verne
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