An edition of Schweizerische Robinson
(1828)
The Swiss family Robinson
by Johann David Wyss
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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.
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Fiction, Survival, Family life, Islands, Juvenile fiction, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Family, Juvenile literature, Voyages, Families, Robinsonades, Imaginary, Shipwrecks, Shipwreck survival, Classics, Imaginary Voyages, Castaways, Survival (Title), Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Islands, fiction, Fiction, family life, Switzerland, fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Motion pictures, Motion pictures, juvenile literature, Adventure and adventurers, Wilderness survival, fiction, Shipwrecks, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Wilderness survival, Familles, Romans, nouvelles, Survie après naufrages, Survie en milieu sauvage, Îles, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Survival, fiction, Fiction, action & adventurePeople
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A Swiss family is shipwrecked on a tropical island, and must survive with what they can salvage from their ship, as well as the natural bounty of the island. The father leads his four sons on a series of adventures that teach important lessons in moral values, husbandry and natural history.
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