The Island of the Day Before

The year is 1643, Roberto, a young nobleman, survives war, the bastille, exile and shipwreck as he voyages to a pacific island straddling the date meridian there he waits now, alone on the mysteriously deserted daphne, separated by treacherous reefs from the island beyond: the island of the day before if he could reach it, time - and his misfortunes - might be reversed but first he must learn to swim