The Swiss Family Robinson: Illustrated by Louis Rhead - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Johann David Wyss, Louis Rhead (Illustrator)Series:Everyman's Library Children's Classics #0000Audience:Ages 4-8Publish date:1994-09-27Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9780679436409ISBN-10:679436405UPC:9780679436409Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:ClassicsSize:8.32 x 6.41 x 0.89 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC9MM5X56M
The Swiss Family Robinson: Illustrated by Louis Rhead
"For many days we had been tempest-tossed...the raging storm increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost." From these dire opening lines, a timeless story of adventure begins. One family will emerge alive from this terrible storm: the Robinsons--a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four sons, plus two dogs and a shipload of livestock. Inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, this...
Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics #0000
Audience: Ages 4-8
Language:EnglishPublisher:Everyman's LibraryISBN-13:9780679436409ISBN-10:679436405UPC:9780679436409Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:ClassicsSize:8.32 x 6.41 x 0.89 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SC9MM5X56M
Johann David Wyss (1743-1818) was, like the narrator of his famous story of survival on an uninhabited island, a Swiss pastor who had four sons. It was to entertain and instruct these children that he devised the idea of the island and its plethora of natural resources, but the writing of Der schweizerische Robinson is said to have been the responsibility of one of the sons, Johann Rudolf...
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