Noble Lord Glenarvan and his wife Ellen, the absent-minded geographer Paganel, the brave sailor John Mangles, Major McNabbs, Captain Grant’s children—Mary and Robert—travel around the world on a ship, cross Patagonia, Australia, and New Zealand, escape a flood, come into contact with convicts, end up in captivity with cannibals, but nevertheless manage to find the shipwreck survivor, Harry Grant.