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Learn about the adventures of a shipwrecked family who build a new life on a remote island in this classic novel by Johann Wyss. Find chapter summaries, themes, characters, analysis, quotes, and more on eNotes.com.
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Set in the late 1700s, The Swiss Family Robinson recounts the ten-year adventure of Robinson, his wife Elizabeth, and their four sons, Fritz, Ernest, Jack, and Franz on an uninhabited island in the south Pacific. En route to Australia, the Robinsons’ ship is wrecked in a turbulent storm.
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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.
The Robinson family builds a raft out of barrels and rafts to the shore of a nearby island with two dogs named Turk and Flora. They make camp with some supplies taken from the ship. The family begins exploring the island and finds nearby animals that they can use for food.
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