attempt to seize control of the ship to practice piracy. He tries to take control of the Duncan, but by sheer luck, this attempt also fails. However the Glenarvans, the Grant children, Paganel and some sailors are left in Australia, and mistakenly believing that the Duncan is lost, they sail to Auckland, New Zealand, from where they want to come back to Europe. When their ship is wrecked south of Auckland on the New Zealand coast, they are captured by a Māori tribe, but luckily manage to escape and board a ship that they discover, to their astonishment, to be the Duncan. Ayrton, made a prisoner, offers to trade his knowledge of Captain Grant in exchange for being abandoned on a desert island instead of being surrendered to the British authorities. The Duncan sets sail for Tabor Island, which, by sheer luck, turns out to be Captain Grant's shelter. They leave Ayrton in his place to live among the beasts and regain his humanity. Ayrton reappears in Verne's later novel, L'Île mystérieuse (The Mysterious Island, 1874). Adaptations 1877: Los sobrinos del capitán Grant ("Captain Grant's nephew and niece"), a three-act, spectacular Spanish zarzuela by Manuel Fernández Caballero to a text by Miguel Ramos Carrión. 1914: Les enfants du capitaine Grant, a French silent film and the last film Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset worked on before his untimely death. 1936: The Children of Captain Grant (Дети капитана Гранта, Deti kapitana Granta), Soviet Union, directed by Vladimir Vajnshtok and starring Nikolai Cherkasov, film score composed by Isaak Dunayevsky. The film was released in the United States as Captain Grant's Children. (see ). 1962: In Search of the Castaways, United States, a film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Maurice Chevalier, Hayley Mills, and George Sanders. Songs by the Sherman Brothers were: "Castaway", "Enjoy It!", "Let's Climb", "Merci Beaucoup". (see ). 1985: In Search of Captain Grant (В поисках капитана Гранта, V poiskakh kapitana Granta, Децата на капитан Грант), Bulgaria and the Soviet Union, a TV miniseries directed by Stanislav Govorukhin and starring Nikolai Yeryomenko, Jr., Lembit Ulfsak, Aleksandr Abdulov, Kosta Tsonev, and Anya Pencheva. Maps 3 Maps Showing The Duncan's crew's search in Argentina, Chile, Australia and New Zealand. References External links 177 illustrations by Édouard Riou from Les Enfants du capitaine Grant (1865–66) 1868 French novels Castaways in fiction French novels adapted into films Novels adapted into operas French novels adapted into television