儒勒·凡尔纳（18281905），法国科幻、探险小说家。他最初学习法律，1863年出版了第一部小说《气球上的五个星期》，获得巨大成功，从此一发而不可收。他一生共出版了六十六部长篇小说，其中有影响的作品是三部曲《格兰特船长的儿女》《海底两万里》和《神秘岛》。
　　儒勒·凡尔纳的小说可分两大类：一类“在未知的世界中漫游”，另一类“在已知的世界中漫游”。他的作品情景壮观、构思奇巧、想象丰富，在引人入胜的故事中蕴含着鲜明的正义感和广博的历史，地理知识。不仅可以激发读者一往无前的探险精神，培养人们的坚强意志，还可以丰富人们的科学知识，让人们感受大自然的广博和神奇。
　　儒勒·凡尔纳的作品影响了几代人。他的作品很多被拍成了电影，历演不衰。他是世界上从上个世纪直至现在受欢迎的作家之一。

 《格兰特船长的儿女》是法国作家儒勒·凡尔纳的代表作品。这部小说的故事是描写游船“邓肯号”船主格里那凡得到两年前遇难失踪的苏格兰航海家格兰特船长的线索，请求英国政府派遣船只去寻找。单被英国政府断然拒绝格里那凡决定自行组织旅行队，亲自去完成这一事业。他带着格兰特船长的儿女，穿过南美洲的草原，横贯澳洲内地和新西兰，环绕了地球一周。一路上，他们以无比的毅力和勇敢，战胜了无数艰险，终于在太平洋的一个荒岛上找到了格兰特船长。

 outh America
Chapter 1 The Shark
Chapter 2 The Three Documents
Chapter 3 The Captain's Children
Chapter 4 Lady Glenarvan's Proposal
Chapter 5 The Departure of the "Duncan"
Chapter 6 An UnexpectedlPassenger
Chapter 7 Jacques Paganel is Undeceived
Chapter 8 The Geographer's Resolution
Chapter 9 Through the Straits of Magellan
Chapter 10 The Course Decided
Chapter 11 Traveling in Chili
Chapter 12 Eleven Thousand FeetAloft
Chapter 13 A Sudden Descent
Chapter 14 Providentially Rescued
Chapter 15 Thalcave
Chapter 16 The News of the Lost Captain
Chapter 17 A Serious Necessity
Chapter 18 In Search of Water
Chapter 19 The Red Wolves
Chapter 20 Strange Signs
Chapter 21 A False Trail
Chapter 22 The Flood
Chapter 23 A Singular Abode
Chapter 24 Paganel's Disclosure
Chapter 25 Between Fire and Water
Chapter 26 The Return on Board
Australia
Chapter 1 A New Destination
Chapter 2 Tristan D'Acunha and the Isle of AmSterdam
Chapter 3 Cape Town and M Viot
Chapter 4 A Wager and How Decided
Chapter 5 The Storm on the Indian Ocean
Chapter 6 A Hospitable Colonist
Chapter 7 The Quartermaster of the "Britannia"
Chapter 8 Preparation for the Journey
Chapter 9 A Country of Paradoxes
Chapter 10 An Accident
Chapter 11 Crime or Calamity
Chapter 12 Toline of the Lachlan
Chapter 13 A Warning
Chapter 14 Wealth in the Wilderness
Chapter 15 Suspicious Occurrences
Chapter 16 A Startling Discovery
Chapter 17 The Plot Unveiled
Chapter 18 Four Days of Anguish
Chapter 19 Helpless and Hopeless
New Zealand
Chapter 1 A Rough Captain
Chapter 2 Navigators and their Discoveries
Chapter 3 The MartyrRoll of Navigators
Chapter 4 The Wreck of the "Macquarie"
Chapter 5 Cannibals
Chapter 6 A Dreaded Country
Chapter 7 The Maori War
Chapter 8 On the Road to Auckland
Chapter 9 Introduction to the Cannibals
Chapter 10 A Momentous Interview
Chapter 11 The Chief's Funeral
Chapter 12 Strangely Liberated
Chapter 13 The Sacred Mountain
Chapter 14 A Bold Stratagem
Chapter 15 From Peril to Safety
Chapter 16 Why the Duncan Went to New Zealand
Chapter 17 Ayrton's Obstinacy
Chapter 18 A Discouraging Confession
Chapter 19 A Cry in the Night
Chapter 20 Captain Grant's Story
Chapter 21 Paganel's Last Entanglement