The Swiss Family Robinson: Shipwrecked on a Deserted Tropical Island, They Use Their Courage and Wits to Survive.

One of the world’s best-loved stories of shipwreck and survival, The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, portrays a family’s struggle to create a new life for themselves on a strange and fantastic tropical island. Blown off course by a raging storm, the family, a Swiss pastor, his wife, their four young sons, plus two dogs and a shipload of livestock, must rely on one another in order to adapt to their needs the natural wonders of their exotic new home. Inspired by Daniel Defoe’s Ro...