A Graphic Novel. This graphic novel version brings Johann Wysss classic adventure story vividly to life.The Swiss Family Robinson is about a fantasy adventure about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies while on route to Australia.What ensues is a series of natural history lessons for children with a geographically impossible array of animals and birds including antelopes, bears, cheetahs, dingoes, elephants, giraffes, hippos, kangaroo...
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Excerpt from The Swiss Family RobinsonThe 'humanity of the book in its essential details, and the characters of the principal actors, shine out all the more clearly for being seen in a setting from which redundancy has been pruned away.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses ...
Excerpt from The Swiss Family Robinson: Or, Adventures in a Desert Island
Tms famous book is known in many' languages, but its title is not always understood. The Swiss missionary who is said to have sailed from Tahiti for New Holland and was wrecked not so very far from New Guinea did not bear the name of Robinson but was given that name by Kampe as appropriate to the Robinson Crusoe sort of life he led on his island. The two books have been...
A huge storm wrecks the Swish Family Robinson's ship on route to Australia. Heroically all six of them, mother father and four boys, fight their way toward a distant island. Surviving the storm is only the first of their many adventures together as they depend on each other and grow into a stronger family that thrives when others would despair.
Excerpt from The Swiss Family Robinson: A New Version
What a great American colonist such a man would have become and so like the American is the character of the liberty-loving Swiss that we could not rest contented with the French translation of this wonderful work, but have presented to you.our American translation, making this version as terse and vigorous as possible, for. Only as such would it appeal to the practical American reader.
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Excerpt from The Swiss Family Robinson: Or, Adventures of a Father and Mother and Four Sons on a Desert Island
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This book is a reproduction of an important histori...
Johann David Wyss (1743-1818) war ein reformierter Pfarrer und Schriftsteller aus der Schweiz. Er war Sohn eines hohen Offiziers und studierte Theologie und Philosophie. Ab 1766 war er Feldprediger, 1775 wurde er Pfarrer in Seedorf und zwei Jahre später am Berner Münster. 1803 zog er sich auf sein Landgut nach Köniz zurück und widmete sich dort vor allem seiner Obst- und Bienenzucht.\"Der Schweizerische Robinson\" entstand nach dem Vorbild Rob...
First published in 1812, Johann David Wyss's "The Swiss Family Robinson" is a classic story of survival on a deserted tropical island. While en route to Australia, the titular Swiss Family Robinson finds themselves in great peril when their vessel is caught in a violent storm. As the ship breaks apart when it is battered against a reef, the family is abandoned by their crew, who escape without them in the lifeboats. The family, which consists ...
Excerpt from Willis the Pilot, a Sequel to the Swiss Family Robinson: Or, Adventures of an Emigrant Family, Wrecked on an Unknown Coast of the Pacific Ocean, Interspersed With Tales, Incidents of Travel, and Illustrations of Natural History
Wherein Willis the Pilot proves Irrefragably that Ephemerides die of Consumption and home-sickness The Canoe and its Young ones - The Search after the Sloop Found The sword-fish Floating Atoms Admiral Socr...
