Benjamin Berton - The Floating City (PDF + EPUB)

A homage to Jules Verne and Jack London, The Floating Island is a contemporary, ecological and scientific adventure novel that wonderfully captures the astonishment and dynamism of our childhood reading. It is the tenth novel by Benjamin Berton, illustrated by Mickaël Janvier.

Freshly graduated in aquaculture, the young Léo Mars is hired to participate in the development of a pioneering clandestine city, built on a floating platform off the coast of Cape Verde. Financed by an Indian billionaire and designed by a prominent British architect, New Cape is a City-State based on the principles of the Blue Economy. Visionary and innovative, it offers 10,000 inhabitants, climate disaster victims, students, skilled workers, engineers and artists the opportunity to build the civilisation of the future on the sea. Life on New Cape, free from wars, terrorism and epidemics, offers a bold alternative to capitalism. But inventing the future is not as simple as it seems: between internal rivalries, brilliant inventions, hurricanes and invasions, the destiny of New Cape will not be exempt from difficulties, leading Leo Mars and his friends to discover that idealism has a cost.