| Title | : | The Swiss Family Robinson (Illustrated) |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Johann David Wyss |
| Release | : | 2014-12-06 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Action & Adventure, Books, Fiction & Literature, Young Adult, Fiction for Young Adults, Action & Adventure Fiction for Young Adults |
| Size | : | 2206358 |
| The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel by Johann David Wyss about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia. The novel opens with the family in the hold of a sailing ship, weathering a great storm. The ship runs aground on a reef, and the family learns the ship's crew has taken to a lifeboat and abandoned them. Subsequent searches for the crew yield no trace. The ship survives the night, and the family finds themselves within sight of a tropical island. The ship's cargo of livestock, dogs, guns & powder, carpentry tools, books, a disassembled pinnace, and provisions have survived. The family builds a raft, lashes livestock and the most valuable supplies to it, and paddles to the island, where they set up a temporary shelter. Over the next few weeks they make several expeditions back to the ship, to empty its hold, and harvest rigging, planks, and sails. They construct a small homestead on the island, and adapt wonderfully well to their new life on the island. Although movie and TV adaptations typically name the family "Robinson", it is not a Swiss name; the "Robinson" of the title refers to Robinson Crusoe. The German name translates as the Swiss Robinson, and identifies the novel as belonging to the Robinsonian genre, rather than as a story about a family named Robinson. |
