“Colony on the Crater” is a retelling of the stories about the city of Vinetta, flooded by the sea, and about Robinson Crusoe in the spirit of F. Cooper’s contemporary ideas about the ideal structure of society, as well as the ability of a white man to adapt to new living conditions. Paradise life in a colony founded on a desert island, due to the greed of the settlers, eventually ceases to be paradise, so its founder has to leave his brainchild. And just in time.