Selected Novels of Jules Verne

Badly degraded documents found in a bottle recovered from a shark’s stomach send Lord Glenarvan on his steam yacht the Duncan in a search around the world for Captain Grant, and the survivors of the shipwreck of the Britannia.

Accompanying him on his rescue mission are his wife, Lady Glenarvan; Mary and Robert Grant, the children of the missing Captain; his cousin Major MacNabbs; and an accidental stowaway, French geographer Jacques Paganel.

This is version 1.1.1 of my unabridged English Translation and eBook of The Children of Captain Grant. In this version I have corrected a few typos from the version 1.0 release, rephrased some awkward passages, and fixed a few translation issues.

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Book 1: South America

Book 2: Australia

Book 3: New Zealand

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The Searcher’s route across New Zealand.

In the year 1866, several ships encounter “ ‘an enormous thing’ at sea, a long spindle-shaped object, sometimes giving off a phosphorescent glow, infinitely bigger and faster than any whale” and some are severely damaged by it.

Believing the mysterious object to be an unknown species of giant narwal, Professor Pierre Aronnax, of the Paris Museum, joins an American expedition to track down and kill the creature. What he catches up with isn’t a whale.

Unabridged English Translation by F.P. Walter.

eBook prepared by Don Sample.

Voyage of the Nautilus in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Voyage of the Nautilus in the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean

Five men, prisoners in the besieged city of Richmond during the American Civil War, plan a daring escape in a balloon. A violent storm arises on the night of their breakout. Undaunted, they carry through with their plan, and are carried much farther by the storm than anyone could have predicted, and crash on a deserted island in the south Pacific Ocean.

Unabridged English Translation by Stanley Kravitz.

eBook prepared by Don Sample.

Lincoln Island