The Swiss family Robinson
By: Johann D. Wyss.
Series: Dover juvenile classics
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Mineola, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Family life -- Fiction.; Survival -- Fiction.; Islands -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: "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.