Originally published in English, it was quickly translated into French and expanded, with parts two and three appearing in 1677 as L’Histoire des Sévarambes.
[1] The first part of the novel tells the story of a shipwreck that occurs during a voyage to Batavia.
The ship The Golden Dragon, under Captain Siden, goes ashore in Terra Australis.
The castaways make their lives for themselves, sustaining themselves through agriculture, hunting, and fishing.
[2] Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, in his Théodicée, referenced the title of this work, using Sevarambian as a synonym for Utopian.