In Search of the Castaways
In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne is available here as the complete text, split into 1904 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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- Chapter I The Shark
- Chapter II The Captain’s Children
- Chapter III Lady Glenarvan’s Proposal
- Chapter IV An Unexpected Passenger
- Chapter V The Geographer’s Resolution
- Chapter VI Through the Straits of Magellan
- Chapter VII Traveling in Chili
- Chapter VIII A Sudden Descent
- Chapter IX Providentially Rescued
- Chapter X The News of the Lost Captain
- Chapter XI A Serious Necessity
- Chapter XII The Red Wolves
- Chapter XIII A False Trail
- Chapter XIV The Flood
- Chapter XV Paganel’s Disclosure
- Chapter XVI The Return on Board
- Chapter XVII A New Destination
- Chapter XVIII Cape Town and M. Viot
- Chapter XIX The Storm on the Indian Ocean
- Chapter XX A Hospitable Colonist
- Chapter XXI Preparation for the Journey
- Chapter XXII An Accident
- Chapter XXIII Crime or Calamity
- Chapter XXIV A Warning
- Chapter XXV Suspicious Occurrences
- Chapter XXVI
- Chapter XXVII Four Days of Anguish
- Chapter XXVIII A Rough Captain
- Chapter XXIX Navigators and Their Discoveries
- Chapter XXX
- Chapter XXXI
- Chapter XXXII The Maori War
- Chapter XXXIII Introduction to the Cannibals
- Chapter XXXIV A Momentous Interview
- Chapter XXXV Strangely Liberated
- Chapter XXXVI A Bold Stratagem
- Chapter XXXVII From Peril to Safety
- Chapter XXXVIII
- Chapter XXXIX A Cry in the Night
- Chapter XL Captain Grant’s Story
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