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Swiss Family Robinson (08456) (original 1812; edition 1986)

by Johann David Wyss

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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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Title:Swiss Family Robinson (08456)
Authors:Johann David Wyss
Info:Bookthrift Co (1986), Edition: Abridged edition, Hardcover, 192 pages
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The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss (Author) (1812)

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illustrated classic
  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
It's a very long time since I read it, but from memory it was a rather boring.
  lcl999 | Feb 14, 2024 |
By page 74 it was still just a laundry list of each day's discovery of new items from the island, or items recovered from the wrecked ship. No plot, no adventure. This may have passed my standards for a good read (probably not), but the thing that made me press the delete button on the Kindle with particular fury was the way in which Father Robinson was so damn knowledgable about every aspect of "savage" lifestyles and survival tactics. I mean, what middle-class clergyman from the Alps knows the exact proper way to halve a tropical gourd? Is it likely that this late-18th century minister from a mountain climate knows that a particular tree from a tropical climate can be used for making sewing thread, and also exactly how to make a navigable boat out of 8 barrels and a bunch of wrecked plywood? It strained the very limits of my suspended disbelief to the snapping point, and snap they did.

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  blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |
Abridged to 190 pages
  bibliothekar_nz | Jul 8, 2023 |
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  leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |
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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Wyss, Johann DavidAuthorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Leif, GramDirectormain authorall editionsconfirmed
Wyss, Johann RudolfEditormain authorall editionsconfirmed
Becker, May LambertonIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Davidson, FrederickNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dietz, NormanNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Edwards, JeanneIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Folkard, CharlesIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Frith, HenryTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gentleman, DavidIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Guidall, GeorgeNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Janeway, ElizabethAfterwordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kingston, William H.G.Editorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kredel, FritzIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lovell, JohnTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Miller, J. HillisIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Packard, EdwardIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Peake, MervynIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Robinson, T. H.Illustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Stadtlander, BeccaIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ward, LyndIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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For many days we had been tempest-tossed.
Already the tempest had continued six days; on the seventh its fury seemed still increasing; and the morning dawned upon us without a prospect of hope, for we had wandered so far from the right track, and were so forcibly driven toward the southeast, that none on board knew where we were.
The tempest had lasted six long and terrible days.
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