Jules Verne - Grant captain gyermekei

,- Have you ever been to this region? - asked.
- I've been! Paganel answered very seriously.
- On a mule?
- No, in an armchair."
Nowadays, it's not as big a deal as it was in the 19th century. The storm-battered island of Tristan da Cunha is still the very end of the world, yet we can get there in the blink of an eye with the help of the Internet, with a few clicks, we can visit its shores in a few minutes. We can roam the entire planet along the 37th parallel south, enjoying the sights and sounds of Patagonia, Australia or New Zealand during a commercial break. The age we live in allows this, but no more. If we were to travel not only in space and time, whether the goal is Verne's world or our own adventure-hungry youth, there is another way. If we could teeter on the edge of fairy tale and reality with a harmless shudder, if we could feel the ocean on our faces, the wind of the pampas, the shadow of the Andes ice range, the burning dust of the desert in the comfortable corner of our home, we still need a book for that. And maybe an armchair.
Captain Grant's Children is the best-known adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1868, the first volume of the great trilogy, which was followed by Captain Nemo and then The Mysterious Island.