1885. New Zealand is in the grip of a gold rush. Desertion is rampant on ships arriving from Europe. Everyone dreams of getting rich at any cost. Having lost half of his crew, the captain of the English brig James Cook decides to take extreme measures. He instructs the boatswain to urgently find a crew in the taverns and pubs of Dunedin, where slackers who are always willing to earn extra money hang out. The next volume of Jules Verne includes the novel “The Brothers Kip”, full of dangers and exoticism of the South Seas. In his detective-pirate intrigue, based, by the way, on real events, one can hear slight echoes of the books of Dumas, Jacolliot and even Dostoevsky. The edition also includes the famous burlesque escapade “The Troubles of a Chinese Man in China” and the Peruvian drama “Martin Paz.”