Johann David Wyss
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The Swiss Family Robinson tells the story of a Swiss family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies. First published in 1812, Johann David Wyss intended the novel to teach his sons family values and and self-reliance. The adventures in the book contain lessons in natural history and moral guidance, and include an impossible array of flora and fauna on a single island that the children use for their survival. The "Robinson" of the title refers
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When a Swiss couple and their four sons are shipwrecked on an isolated island, they adapt to their "New Switzerland" using many imaginative methods of farming and animal taming.
"'Already the tempest had continued six days; on the seventh its fury seemed to still increasing; and the morning dawned upon us without the prospect of hope.' The story of the Robinson family of Switzerland-- a minister, his wife, and four sons-- begins as they are tossed...