The Children Of Captain Grant

This is the fully illustrated and extended annotated edition including a rare and extensive biographical essay on the author, his life and works plus a wealth of illustrations. The Children of Captain Grant is a novel by Jules Verne and was published in 1867. Captain Grant of the Britannia got shipwrecked and Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland, together with Grant's children Mary and Robert, start their rescue quest. The dangerous journey leasd them to South America, Australia and New Zealand.