The main difficulty is that the coordinates of the wreckage are mostly erased, and only the latitude (37 degrees) is known thus, the expedition would have to circumnavigate the 37th parallel south. The government refuses to launch a rescue expedition, but Lord and Lady Glenarvan, moved by the children's condition, decide to do it by themselves. After finding a bottle the captain had cast into the ocean after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland contact Mary and Robert, the young daughter and son of Captain Grant, through an announcement in a newspaper. The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. As often with Verne, English translations have appeared under different names another edition has the overall title Captain Grant's Children and has two volumes subtitled The Mysterious Document and Among the Cannibals. The three volumes were subtitled South America, Australia, and New Zealand. In 1876, it was republished by George Routledge & Sons as a three volume set titled A Voyage Round The World. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Édouard Riou. In Search of the Castaways ( French: Les Enfants du capitaine Grant, lit.'The Children of Captain Grant') is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1867–68.
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