Complete and unabridged, with 9 full-page plates by Taliesin Williams, Louis-Philippe Crépin and Louis Meijer. A message in a bottle from a shipwrecked Scottish captain sends his children round the world along the thirty-seventh parallel - Patagonia, Australia, New Zealand - looking for him. Verne's most cheerful long adventure and the one with the best comic character in the whole series. This edition carries nine bound plates after Stanfield, Crépin and Catlin, and forty-eight illustrations restored and coloured.