Destitute, but energetic and determined, they will struggle for survival, before returning gradually, through their work and the science of the engineer Cyrus Smith, a state of civilization near the one they left . Five "shipwrecked air", carried away by the hurricane in their helpless ball landed 24 March 1865 on a deserted island in the South Pacific. Reflection on humanity, its definition, its limits, anguished meditation on the vanity of human works, the history of settlers in Lincoln Island is not a simple Robinson Crusoe. But they will soon realize that they believed in this deserted island lies a mysterious presence that they can only see the effects without finding their origin. 2010. What she proposes is the perfection of the amazing journey: both travel and travel beyond; both adventure and sense of adventure.