Customer Reviews

In Search of the Castaways , Volume IV: The Children of Captain Grant

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Yet another printout of a file that's available for free on dozens of internet sites.

The internet file has italicized words in CAPITALS, simply because italics can't be used in ASCII. This publisher didn't even take the time to fix that!!! (check out the scans to see for yourself, don't buy this "book").

Plus, this internet file is a horribly truncated version of Verne's work, with four chapters missing, and significant deletions elsewhere.

Reputable bookstores should not be selling this type of rubbish.

I love this book especially because it was one of my most favorite books when I was a child. It was my first long story that I read tens of times. For me, still it's the best science-fiction book. If you want to enjoy whole the story I recommend you to read "The Mysterious Island" and "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". All these 3 books are related to each other.

As someone else has already mentioned, this book has many errors in it. Several times on each page words are sep- erated in the middle of a line. Also, HTML codes are occasionally left in, or a random page number and heading will be in the middle of a page.
The errors are frequent enough to distract from the story, I would not recommend buying this edition.

I loved this novel as a child and I am very happy that I can finally get a copy of it. The printing and editing are not the best but they don't bother me much.