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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"This Dover edition, first published in 2001, is an unabridged republication of a standard English-language edition of the work originally published in German in 1812-13 by Johann Rudolf Wyss, a son of the author, and published in 1889 in an altered English-language edition edited by W.H.G. Kingston"--T.p. verso.
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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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