
The Waif of the "Cynthia"
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The parents tell the doctor of this history of this boy that came to live in their family. The father found the boy as a baby in a cradle attached to a buoy adrift at sea and the name on the buoy was Cynthia. The parents agree to let their boy Erik accompany the doctor to Stockholm for a better education, but also on the promise that the doctor will make every effort to find the boy's true parents.
Erik receives a fine education but the doctor's efforts to discover his past prove unfruitful until the name Patrick O'Donoghan is discovered, he is the only sailor who survived the wreck of the Cynthia.
A man named Tudor Brown keeps getting in the way of the doctor and Erik uncovering Erik's birthright as they travel on board the Alaska bound for a destination where the expect to meet the Vega the last known ship to have Patrick O'Donoghan as part of the crew.
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Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. He is the second most translated author of all time, behind Agatha Christie. His prominent novels have been made into films. Verne, along with H. G. Wells, is often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction".
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