The Children of Captain Grant

A scream of horror escaped all lips. From the claws of the condor hung, shaking, an inanimate body: that of Robert Grant. The animal held him by his clothes, and he swayed in the air, less than a hundred and fifty feet above the camp. This work was published in three parts: South America (1866); Australia (1866) and Pacific Ocean (1867). From the discovery of a fragmentary message, an almost police expedition is organized and a tremendous succession of adventures in the most diverse places. The exoticism, the action, the enigma, and an excellent gallery of characters, among which stand out the children of Harry Grant (Mary and Robert), the intrepid Captain Lord Glenarvan, and the unique and funny geographer and adventurer Jacques Paganell, are some of the attractions that can explain that The Children of Captain Grant has become one of the most famous and read works of Jules Verne.