The Castaways of the Flag

The Castaways of the Flag

Title page of a Hetzel edition
Author	Jules Verne
Original title	Seconde patrie
Translator	Cranstoun Metcalfe
Illustrator	Georges Roux
Country	France
Language	French
Series	The Extraordinary Voyages #47
Genre	Adventure novel
Publisher	Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date	1900
Published in English	1923
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Preceded by	The Will of an Eccentric
Followed by	The Village in the Treetops

The Castaways of the Flag (French: Seconde patrie, lit. Second Fatherland, 1900) is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne. The two volumes of the novel were initially published in English translation as two separate volumes: Their Island Home and The Castaways of the Flag. Later reprints were published as The Castaways of the Flag.

The story is a sequel to the 1812 book The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss, picking up where that novel leaves off.

Publication history[]

• May 1923, Their Island Home and The Castaways of the Flag, London: Sampson Low

Plot summary[]

Map of "New Switzerland"

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Bibliography[]

• Title The Castaways of the Flag: The Final Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson
• Authors Jules Verne, Johann David Wyss
• Editor S. Low, Marston, 1923
• 242 pages

External links[]

• The Castaways of the Flag at Project Gutenberg

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• Seconde patrie available at Jules Verne Collection (in French)

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