Swiss · b. 1743
Johann David Wyss was a Swiss author best known for The Swiss Family Robinson, the classic tale of a shipwrecked family's survival and ingenuity that has delighted young readers for two centuries.
Johann David Wyss was a Swiss pastor who wrote The Swiss Family Robinson (1812) to entertain and instruct his own children, with the manuscript later edited and published by his son.
The novel tells of a Swiss family shipwrecked on a tropical island, who survive and thrive through resourcefulness, cooperation, and industriousness — an episodic adventure rich in invention and moral lesson that became one of the most enduring of all children’s classics and inspired countless adaptations.
Wyss is remembered for this single famous book, a foundational survival-adventure story that has charmed and inspired generations of young readers.
by Johann David Wyss
Johann David Wyss's classic tale of survival and ingenuity. Shipwrecked on a tropical island, a resourceful Swiss family builds a new life from the wilderness, taming the land and its creatures in an episodic adventure that has delighted young readers for two centuries.
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