About the book: 2004 / In this volume, for the first time, translated from the original language, the full text of the classic novel by I. D. Wyss is offered to the attention of readers about a Swiss family that survived a shipwreck and settled down uninhabited island. J. Verne loved this book very much since childhood. Already at the end of his brilliant literary career, he decided to write a kind of continuation of “Swiss Robinson”: he came up with new situations (a mutiny on a ship, a landing on a barren rocky shore, the desperate situation of victims of disaster and an unexpectedly found passage to a new world, a difficult overcoming of a mountain range, a fight against savages), introduced new characters, developed unexpected storylines. “The Second Motherland,” like its prototype, is a hymn to human initiative, creative work, and the ability to maintain composure and the will to live in any situation. fb2 file was created by Simon de Monfor (respect for the work done!). The cover and endpapers were inserted by poRUchik (for those who are not afraid of the file size and the presence of illustrations is important).