Culture | Banishment

The story of three 19th-century dissidents sent into exile

William Atkins brings together the tales of Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, Louise Michel and Lev Shternberg with reflections on belonging

"Isle of Pines album" (New-Caledonia). Sketchbook of a deportee, Louise Michel's companion: landscape of the Isle of Pines, 1871. (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Exiles: Three Island Journeys. By William Atkins. Faber & Faber; 320 pages; £20

This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “No place like home”

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