Swiss Family Robinson
Author: first_name:  Johann David
last_name: Wyss
first_name:  Johann Rudolf
last_name: Wyss
Language: English
Year: 1849

The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the right stuff” and builds a charming colony that later, they do not want to leave. Cut off from the comforts and companionship of other humans, they use a familiarity with natural history and biology to find the resources and build the tools to construct a canoe, weave cloth, irrigate a garden, and turn an immense hollow tree into a lofty house with a spiral st