- Fiction, Survival, Family life, Islands
A Swiss family is shipwrecked on a tropical island, and must survive with what they can salvage from their ship, as well as the natural bounty of the island. The father leads his four sons on a series of adventures that teach important lessons in moral values, husbandry and natural history.
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Earnest, classical in form, resolved and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Johann David Wyss
- First published
- 1828
- Pages
- 340
- Publisher
- Random House Audio, Ginn & Co., School of Tomorrow
- Editions
- 95
- Language
- German, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781562650063
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