In Search of the Castaways is a story by Jules Verne about the quest to find Captain Grant, who's been lost at sea. The book follows his children and their journey around the world, based on a cryptic note found in a bottle.

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I: The Shark

II: The Three Documents

III: The Captain’s Children

IV: Lady Glenarvan’s Proposal

V: The Departure of the Duncan

VI: An Unexpected Passenger

VII: Jacques Paganel Is Undeceived

VIII: The Geographer’s Resolution

IX: Through the Strait of Magellan

X: The Course Decided

XI: Traveling in Chile

XII: Eleven Thousand Feet Aloft

XIII: A Sudden Descent

XIV: Providentially Rescued

XV: Thalcave

XVI: News of the Lost Captain

XVII: A Serious Necessity

XVIII: In Search of Water

XIX: The Red Wolves

XX: Strange Signs

XXI: A False Trail

XXII: The Flood

XXIII: A Singular Abode

XXIV: Paganel’s Disclosure

XXV: Between Fire and Water

XXVI: The Return on Board

XXVII: A New Destination

XXVIII: Tristan d’Acunha and the Isle of Amsterdam

XXIX: The Storm on the Indian Ocean

XXX: A Hospitable Colonist

XXXI: The Quartermaster of the Britannia

XXXII: Preparations for the Journey

XXXIII: An Accident

XXXIV: Australian Explorers

XXXV: Crime or Calamity?

XXXVI: Fresh Faces

XXXVII: A Warning

XXXVIII: Wealth in the Wilderness

XXXIX: Suspicious Occurrences

XL: A Startling Discovery

XLI: The Plot Unveiled

XLII: Four Days of Anguish

XLIII: Helpless and Hopeless

XLIV: A Rough Captain

XLV: The Wreck of the Macquarie

XLVI: Vain Efforts

XLVII: A Dreaded Country

XLVIII: Introduction to the Cannibals

XLIX: A Momentous Interview

L: The Chief’s Funeral

LI: Strangely Liberated

LII: The Sacred Mountain

LIII: A Bold Stratagem

LIV: From Peril to Safety

LV: Why the Duncan Went to New Zealand

LVI: Ayrton’s Obstinacy

LVII: A Discouraging Confession

LVIII: A Cry in the Night

LIX: Captain Grant’s Story

LX: Paganel’s Last Entanglement

LXI: The End

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In Search of the Castaways