Summary "Children of Captain Grant"

There are works in the world literature that do not lose relevance or relevance over the years. Among them you can name and "Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", and, of course, "Children of Captain Grant." This book is written by the famous French science fiction writer Jules Verne. This novel, which is included in the famous trilogy, together with the narrative of Captain Nemo and the submarine "Nautilus", as well as with the "Mysterious Island", has been a teenage reference book for more than 150 years.

Despite the fact that Jules Verne is officially considered a science fiction, in the book "Captain Grant's Children", a brief summary of which we will now try to present, there are no flights to the moon, no descent to the center of the Earth, nor warlike aliens from outer space. And what is there? And there are noble sailors, sincere people, courageous women and generous men.

Of course, to feel the charm of the novel is possible only when it is read, since no retelling will replace personal impressions, but the presentation of the main direction of the book will give a general idea of it. So, let's begin…

Summary. "Children of Captain Grant" from the classic of French literature - Monsieur Jules Verne

At the end of July 1864, the owner of the Duncan yacht, Lord Glenarvan, and his young wife Helen are preparing for a wedding trip. During the trials of the yachts' performance, they catch a shark in the Irish Sea, inside which they find a bottle with a note. At that time, there was still no mobile phones, satellite communications and the Internet, and a note sealed in a bottle was often the only chance of salvation for the unfortunate, shipwrecked people away from civilized places. And there were plenty of such places on the globe.

After examining the contents of the bottle, Glenarvan saw that it contained three texts written in different languages and overlapping each other. The notes told that a certain Captain Grant and his two sailors are waiting for help at 37 degrees south parallel.

Unfortunately, water penetrated inside the bottle and washed away part of the message, and exactly the one in which the longitude and the name of the island was indicated.

It seemed impossible to help the unfortunate victims of the shipwreck, they told Glenarvan directly at the Admiralty. But Glenarvan's wife decides otherwise. Under the influence of the tears of the children of Captain Grant - a sixteen-year-old Mary and Robert, who are younger than their sister for four years, they decide on their "Duncan" to circumnavigate the globe on the 37th parallel and find the unfortunate.

Naturally, they are sent to the expedition, they are not in the fourth. They are joined by Major McNabbs, as well as the entire crew of the yacht, led by the young captain John Mangles. At the very beginning of the journey, they acquire another companion. It's ironic for them to be the famous geographer Jacques Paganel, who got to the Duncan due to his dispersion, the glory of which goes hand in hand with his fame as a scientist. It was Paganel who, after studying the document, expressed confidence that, most likely, Captain Grant was in South America. And it is necessary to search for it in Patagonia, so the territory belonging to Chile today is called.

We will not recount all the adventures in which the members of the expedition participated, since they can be learned only by reading the novel itself, rather than its brief content. Captain Grant's children, along with their friends, visited Patagonia, Australia, Tristan da Cunha, and even New Zealand. But each expedition on these lands turned out to be barren. Sea water so cleverly damaged the document, scraps of words were so chaotically washed away that with each new reading it was absolutely indisputable a new version, expressed by Paganel. By the way, finding out the place of shipwreck will be of interest to those who like cryptograms, because the process itself is a bit like unraveling the mystery of dancing people. But, alas, to find out by what means the geographer came to the conclusion that one must search each time in a new place, one must read the book itself, and its brief content.

The children of Captain Grant - Mary and Robert - proved that they are worthy of their father - a brave Scottish sailor. After the participants of the expedition rounded the 37th parallel almost the entire globe, their hands began to fall, as the hope to save the victims of the shipwreck practically disappeared. But the children did not want to accept failure. They believed that their father was alive and waiting for help. Glenarvan promised them that a little later another expedition would be organized, and now it is necessary to return. It remains only to do one, not very pleasant thing - to land on the first uninhabited island of the criminal Ayrton. Who is Ayrton and where did he come from? And this is written in the novel. You did not forget that you are not reading a book, but its very brief content.

Children of Captain Grant at night suddenly hear a voice calling for help. It seems to them that this is the voice of their father. But where did he come from? After all, the ship is quite far from the unremarkable island of Tabor, which decided to land Ayrton. But you need to check, and Glenarvan sends a boat to the island.

It's not necessary to tell about what Captain Grant was waiting for on this island. Children finally find their father, and at the same time, and fate. Mary is engaged to the brave John Mangles. And Robert does not think of his continued existence without sea voyages. But Jules Verne does not strive to part with his heroes, and the reader will be able to meet familiar names in a book called The Mysterious Island.