The island of the day before
By: Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver.
Contributors: Weaver, William, 1923-
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Co.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Translation of: L' isola del giorno prima
Number of pages: 515
Description: After a violent storm in the South Pacific (the year is 1643), Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked - on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne, anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully provisioned, he discovers, but the crew is missing.

In this fascinating, lyrical tale, Umberto Eco tells of an international race to establish the Punto Fijo of a young dreamer searching for love and meaning; and of a most amazing old Jesuit who, with his clocks and maps, has plumbed the secrets of longitudes, the four moons of Jupiter, and the Flood.
Notes: "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."