Jules Verne grew up on Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, and here he takes up Wyss’s shipwrecked family where the original left them. Fritz and Jack play savages, the British corvette Unicorn arrives, Jenny Montrose tells her story, and expeditions push along unknown coasts to discover how much of the island remains unexplored.
The first half of Verne’s Second Fatherland in Cranstoun Metcalfe’s translation, continued in The Castaways of the Flag. Download the free EPUB.