Magellania
- List Price: $15.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Natl Book Network
- Publish date: 02/15/2005
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Magellania -- which refers to the region around the Strait of Magellan -- is the home of Kaw-djer, a mysterious man of Western origin whom the indigenous peoples consider a demigod. A man whose motto is "Neither God nor master, " he has shunned Western civilization and its hypocrisies in order to live peacefully on an island claimed by no one. But when a thousand immigrants become stranded on his island in a storm, will Kaw-djer go against everything he believes in to help them live and prosper in this foreign land at the end of the world?
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Originally penned in 1897, Magellania was totally rewritten after Verne's death by his son Michel and published under the title Les naufrages du Jonathan, and soon disappeared into obscurity. In 1985 the great Vernian scholar Piero Gondolo della Riva discovered the original manuscript in the family archives of Verne's publisher Hetzel. Welcome Rain is proud to introduce this first English translation of Magellania, a unique, forceful novel that widens the scope of Verne's literary legacy and distinguishes itself in Verne's somber, philosophical questioning of society, religion, nature and man as he neared the end of his life.
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