Island on the eve

The 17th century, the time of the Great Geographical Discoveries. Roberto de la Grive sets off on a ship to travel around the world. However, a storm destroys his plans, and after a shipwreck he ends up not on a deserted island, like Robinson Crusoe, but on the "Daphne" - a ship stranded in the lagoon of an unknown island in the Pacific Ocean, where, at first glance, there is no one. There he recalls his past, full of amazing adventures: participation in the Thirty Years' War, sitting under siege in a city that the Spaniards tried to capture, friendship with an atheist nobleman, life in Paris, where love, alchemy, and Richelieu and Mazarin awaited him... The novel contains many quotes from books, both famous and not very popular, it is full of surprises for insightful readers, which gives it a special appeal.