Palisades Island

Palisades Island
Title page from 1731
AuthorJohann Gottfried Schnabel
Original titleWunderliche Fata einiger See-Fahrer...
TranslatorJohn W. Van Cleve
LanguageGerman
PublisherJohann Heinrich Groß
Publication date
1731
Publication placeHoly Roman Empire
Published in English
2017
Pages608

Palisades Island (German: Insel Felsenburg, lit.'Rock Castle Island') is a novel by the German writer Johann Gottfried Schnabel, first published under the pseudonym Gisander in 1731. It is about a sailor who has been shipwrecked on an island in the South Sea and ends up creating a large family that forms an ideal society. The book became very popular and Schnabel wrote three sequels.