A storm-driven stranger falls among a party camping on a southern cliff, and the narrator follows him into Riallaro, a ring of islands hidden in the South Pacific where each nation has exiled its misfits. Island by island the traveller studies their languages, religions, customs and economies, finding in each a pointed caricature of the habits of the modern world.
A satirical utopia in the line of Swift and Butler’s Erewhon, by the New Zealand scholar John Macmillan Brown. Download the free EPUB.