The Wyss, Johann David 1743-1818 creator Wyss, Johann Rudolf 1782-1830 Winter, Milo 1888-1956 text utu 2011 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures on a Desert Island" by Johann David Wyss is a novel first published in 1812. When a Swiss family's ship is wrecked in the East Indies, they find themselves stranded without the crew. The parents and their four sons must reach a nearby island and build a new life from scratch. Using salvaged supplies and the island's resources, they create a settlement and face various adventures. Will they ever see civilization again, or will this island become their permanent home? (This is an automatically generated summary.) Jean Rudolph Wyss is credited as author on title page of this edition, but his father Johann David Wyss is more commonly listed as author. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swiss_Family_Robinson Release date is 2011-01-01 Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Original publication data not identified Islands -- Fiction Survival -- Fiction Family life -- Fiction PT PZ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34808 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34808 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133808.0 34808