"Les naufragés du Jonathan" by Jules Verne is a novel published in 1909. A thousand shipwrecked pioneers find themselves stranded on Hoste Island near Cape Horn. Their reluctant leader is the Kaw-Djer, an anarchist from European royalty who fled civilization to live in isolation. As crises strike the settlement—from attempted murders to gold fever—he must repeatedly abandon his anarchist principles to govern. The story explores political ideologies through its characters while following the community's struggle to survive. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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