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In Search of the Castaways
by Jules VERNE (1828 - 1905)Book Two - XIV - Wealth in the Wilderness
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. (summary from Wikipedia).
Listen next episodes of In Search of the Castaways:
Book Three - I - A Rough Captain , Book Three - II - Navigators and their Discoveries , Book Three - III - The Martyr-roll of Navigators , Book Three - IV - The Wreck of the "Macquarie" , Book Three - IX - Introduction to the Cannibals , Book Three - V - Cannibals , Book Three - VI - The dreaded Country , Book Three - VII - The Maori War , Book Three - VIII - On the Road to Auckland , Book Three - X - A momentous Interview , Book Three - XI - The Chief's Funeral , Book Three - XII - Strangely liberated , Book Three - XIII - The sacred Mountain , Book Three - XIV - A bold Stratagem , Book Three - XIX -A Cry in the Night , Book Three - XV - From Peril to Safety , Book Three - XVI - Why the "Duncan" went to New-Zealand , Book Three - XVII - Airton's Obstinacy , Book Three - XVIII - A discouraging Confession , Book Three - XX - Captain Grant's Story , Book Three - XXI - Paganel's last Entanglement , Book Two - XIX - Helpless and Hopeless , Book Two - XV - Suspicious Occurences , Book Two - XVI - A startling Discovery , Book Two - XVII - The Plot Unveiled , Book Two - XVIII - Four Days of Anguish