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Magellania

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Magellania

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Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 2013
Original French publication, 1909
Series: Frontiers of Imagination: Book 69
Book Type: Novel
Genre: Fantasy
Sub-Genre Tags: Historical Fantasy
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The 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.

Magellania--the region around the Strait of Magellan--is the home of Kaw-djer, a mysterious man of Western origin whom the indigenous people 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 storm strands a thousand immigrants on his island and they ask him to be the leader of their colony, Kaw-djer must decide whether to help them live and prosper in this foreign land at the end of the world or leave them to their fate.


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