A young sea apprentice finds himself in charge of a ship, which is led astray to a land where the slave trade abounds.

A Scottish lord and lady set off on a quest to find and rescue the shipwrecked Captain Grant.

An ex-slave trader with an encrypted note schemes about its meaning, while a man with a secret past travels with his family down the Amazon in a giant raft to attend his daughter’s wedding.

A Parisian news reporter is assigned to travel across Asia by train and report on the sights, experiences, and interesting characters along the way.