Captain Antifer- Jules Verne

Original title:: Mirifiques Aventures de Maître Antifer

It all starts when a stranger Ship, with an unknown captain. He goes in search of an unknown island in an unknown sea.

Actually this unknown ship is commanded by Captain Zo, and for the last fifteen months he has seek an "unknown island," for cartographers. I wanted to find this island was his to migo Kamylk Pasha, who accompanied him on the trip. Which she was an Egyptian, who had a huge fortune in diamonds, rubies, gold, silver and other jewelry, worth a hundred million francs.

He wanted to hide this fortune, his cousin Murad, who was his only heir who was six years younger than him, and his enemy by political ideologies, Kamylk-Pasha is even prepared jettison his enormous fortune if not Islet is the case before it fell into the hands of his cousin.
On September 9 at twilight, the lookout, currency earth, according to the maps in that location should not have land along several leagues round bone found in the much desired to hide this treasure island.

Kamylk Pasha, was cast prisoner and sentenced to death after capitulation of Jaffa, March 6, with a group of four thousand soldiers during the war that kept Napoleon Bonaparte to conquer Egypt and later as he fled from his cousin He enjoyed the support of the viceroy of Egypt, who wanted to seize his fortune. In these circumstance, three people get help to escape several times, moving his vast fortune from Egypt to Syria, and has then escape from Syria, declared war when the viceroy of Egypt, inspired by his cousin. And to let them inherit this vast fortune the following people:
These people live in different parts of the globe: one was called Thomas Antifer and was captain and lived in Saint-Malo in Brittany, France, which saved his life for the killing of Napoleon Bonaparte.

The other was Zambuco, a banker who was originally from Malta but who had spent many years living as a lender in Tunisia, and was the one who put his safe in Aleppo in Syria with his fortune.

The latter, called Tyrcomel, who was a esquire, who lived in Edinburgh, Scotland in England.

To all this he sent a letter notifying that in some years later compensate them for they services, leaving a legacy his enormous fortune, equally, less than one percent of that wealth belonging to the executor for having informed Kamylk death Pasha, and where that is the "unknown island".

This was a notary executor of Alexandria in Egypt called Ben-Omar.

Thus when Ben-Omar, twenty years later visit the Pasha Kamylk death in prisons in Cairo, the son of Thomas Antifer, having died this in his old age without receiving the letter. Begins an adventure through Europe, middle Eastand Africa, across the sea and by land. Interesting and fun to unite all surrogates and go in search of the "Unknown Islet". Especially when the scene comes Sauk, who was the son of Murad, who also hated Kamylk Pasha, like his father.