Description: These CDs will play in any CD player at home or in your car. In Search of the Castaways Jules Verne(1828 - 1905) The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle cast into the ocean by the captain himself after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland decide to launch a rescue expedition. The main difficulty is that the coordinates of the wreckage are mostly erased, and only the latitude (37 degrees) is known.Lord Glenarvan makes it his quest to find Grant; together with his wife, Grant's children and the crew of his yacht the Duncan they set off for South America. An unexpected passenger in the form of French geographer Jacques Paganel joins the search. They explore Patagonia, Tristan da Cunha Island, Amsterdam Island, Australia and New Zealand in their search for the castaways. Read by Sibella Denton, Eddie Winter, Laurie Anne Walden, Bill Young, Rosanna Teranta, Roger Melin, Helen Elsbeth, Anna Roberts, Erica Sims, Maria Elmvang, Mark F. Smith, Esther, Michael Gray, Kristine Bekere, M Petranech, Dirk Weber and Lucy Lo Faro Run Time 17 Hours in 15 Audio CDs Chapter Titles: Introduction The Shark The Three Documents The Captain's Children Lady Glenarvan's Proposal The Departure of the Duncan An Unexpected Passenger Jacques Paganel is undeceived The Geographer's Resolution Through the Straits of Magelan The Course decided Traveling in Chili Eleven Thousand Feet aloft A Sudden Descent Providentially Rescued Thalcave The News of the lost Captain A Serious Necessity In Search of Water The Red Wolves Strange Signs A False Trail The Flood A Simple Abode Paganel's Disclosure Between Fire and Water The Return on Board A new Destination Tristan DAcunha and the Isle of Amsterdam Cape Town and M. Viot A Wager And How Decided The Storm on the Indian Ocean A Hospitable Colonist The Quartermaster of the Britannia preparation for the Journey A Country of Paradoxes An Accident Crime or Calamity Toline of the Lachlan Warning Wealth in the Wilderness Suspicious Occurences A startling Discovery The Plot Unveiled Four Days of Anguish Helpless and hopeless A rough Captain Navigators and their Discoveries The Martyrroll of Navigators The Wreck of the Macquarie Canibals The Dreaded Country The Maori War On the Road to Auckland Introduction to the Cannibals A Momentous Interview The Chief's Funeral Strangely Liberated The Sacred Mountain A Bold Stratagem From Peril to Safety Why the Duncan went to New Zealand Ayrton's Obstinacy A discouraging Confession A Cry in the Night Captain Grant's Story Paganel's last Entanglement Our Audiobooks are Complete and Unabridged (unless otherwise indicated) Our Audiobooks are always read by real people, never by computers.Please Note: These recorded readings are from the author's original works which are in the public domain. All recordings and artwork are in the public domain and there are no infringements or copyrights. Each track starts with "This is a LibriVox recording...."Although Librivox has graciously made these recordings available to the public domain, they are not associated with the sale of this product. Public domain books A public-domain book is a book with no copyright, a book that was created without a license, or a book where its copyrights expired or have been forfeited. In most countries the of copyright expires on the first day of January, 70 years after the death of the latest living author. The longest copyright term is in Mexico, which has life plus 100 years for all deaths since July 1928. A notable exception is the United States, where every book and tale published before 1926 is in the public domain; American copyrights last for 95 years for books originally published between 1925 and 1978 if the copyright was properly registered and maintained.
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Features: Unabridged
Format: Audio CD
Topic: Classic Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Case Type: Paper Sleeve, No Case Included
Language: English
Book Title: In Search of the Castaways
Author: Jules Verne
Narrative Type: Fiction
Genre: Action, Adventure
Type: Audiobook