The New Atlantis (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Francis Bacon
- First Published: 1627
- Type of Work: Philosophy
- Type of Plot: Fable
- Time of Work: Early seventeenth century
- Setting: Bensalem, South Sea
- Principal Characters: Narrator, The Governor of the House of Strangers, Joabin, A Father
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Fable, Essays, Utopian fiction, Roman à clef
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Voyages, Science or scientists, England or English people, Sixteenth century, Renaissance, Utopias, South Pacific, Pacific Ocean
- Locales: Bensalem
The Story:
An unidentified narrator, who is a member of a crew of 150 men sailing to China and Japan from Peru, recorded the events that transpired when their ship was blown off course. After some months at sea, they arrived at the port of a large island in an uncharted part of the South Sea. Eight people from the island approached the ship in a small boat and delivered a scroll whose message was repeated in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Spanish. The ship, the scroll said, could remain in port for sixteen days. It also extended the islanders’ offer to bring whatever supplies were...
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