the weimer republic, one of the characters, hines wittmer, had been a high official in the republic and was was really desperate to flee germany partly of that he had many political enemies and the rising nazi party and so would they arrive on an floriana. you know all these external factors are happening around them and it really to with the american explorers these very wealthy american explorers who were untouched by the great you know, they got their stock down in time. they were fine and it became a pastime for wealthy americans during period to build these yachts kind of like scientific floating laboratories and chartered these expeditions down to the galapagos island to gather exotic flora and fauna and when this happened, first one who came down was a man by the name eugene macdonald was the founder of zenith radio, had no idea that floriana was inhabited into frederick and dorie. it runs, and when he goes back, the united states speaks about his discover of a modern day adam and eve, which of course sets the stage for other people to start coming to floreana for the entire worl