The Man Without a Country is a short story by Edward Everett Hale. Lieutenant Philip Nolan forsakes his nation during a court case for treachery and is subsequently condemned to spend the rest of his life at sea.
Complete and unabridged. A shipwrecked family learns to subsist on the natural endowments of the island --to live by their own ingenuity. They refused to leave when a ship arrived to take them home.