![]() ![]() ![]() Written by Swiss writer Johann David Wyss, edited by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss, and illustrated by another son, Johann Emmanuel Wyss, the novel was intended to teach his four sons about family values, good farming, the uses of the natural world, and self-reliance. It has gone through a large number of versions and adaptations. The book is the most successful of a large number of " Robinsonade" novels that were written in response to the success of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719). ![]() They make their way to shore, where they build a settlement, undergoing several adventures before being rescued some refuse rescue and remain on the island. The ship's crew is lost, but the family and several domestic animals survive. The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson, "The Swiss Robinson") is a novel by the Swiss author Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies. ![]()
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