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After a ferocious storm leaves their ship shattered on a rocky shore, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and their four boys — Fritz, Ernest, Jack, and Francis — find themselves utterly alone on an uncharted tropical island. With no hope of rescue and only the wrecked vessel's stores to sustain them, the family sets to work with extraordinary creativity: building a treehouse home high in a giant fig tree, taming wild buffaloes and ostriches, cultivating crops, manufacturing candles, pottery, and woven cloth, and gradually transforming raw wilderness into a thriving settlement they name New Switzerland. Spanning ten remarkable years, their story is one of relentless invention, hard-won comfort, and the bittersweet tension between a paradise built by their own hands and the distant world they left behind. When a mysterious albatross message breaks a decade of isolation, the family's greatest adventure — and its most difficult choice — is just beginning.
