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The Swiss family Robinson

Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.

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Main Author:	Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818
Other Authors:	Rhead, Louis (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English German
Published:	New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1994.
Series:	Everyman's library children's classics
Subjects:	Family life > Juvenile fiction. Survival > Juvenile fiction. Islands > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.
Item Description:	"First published 1812"--verso t.p. "First included in Everyman's Library 1910"--verso t.p.
Physical Description:	286 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	0679436405 :
Author Notes:	Johann David Wyss (1743-1818) was, like the narrator of his famous story of survival on an uninhabited island, a Swiss pastor who had four sons. It was to entertain and instruct these children that he devised the idea of the island and its plethora of natural resources, but the writing of Der schweizerische Robinson is said to have been the responsibility of one of the sons, Johann Rudolf (1782-1830). First published in 1812, it was first translated into English two years later. Since then its translators have been many and they have freely adapted and expanded the original German text, making it one of the most popular novels of all time. Louis John Rhead (1857-1926) , an American artist, was born in England. He illustrated many classics of children's literature, including Gulliver's Travels (1913), Grimms' Fairy Tales (1917) and Stevenson's Kidnapped (1921), all for the firm of Harper in New York. His illustrations for The Swiss Family Robinson , 'done from sketches made in the tropics', were first published in 1909.