The Island of the day before /
by Umberto Eco.
- 1st ed.
- London : Vintage, 1998.
- 515 p. : ; 20 cm.
Seventeenth-century sailor Roberto della Griva, shipwrecked in the the South Pacific, takes refuge aboard a ship he believes to be abandoned, but is really inhabited by the brilliant Father Caspar, a man who has unlocked the secrets of navigation--a discovery destined to change the world.