The Swiss Family Robinson (Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family who is shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia. Johann David Wyss (Bern, March 4, 1743 - 1818) was a Swiss author, best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson (1812), based on the Robinson Crusoe adventure by Daniel Defoe. ... Adventure novels have adventure as a main theme. ... A historical novel is a novel in which the story is set among historical events, or more generally, in which the time of the action predates the lifetime of the author. ... A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) book is bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with cloth or heavy paper) and a stitched spine. ... Paperback may refer to a kind of book binding by which papers are simply folded without cloth or leather and bound - usually with glue rather than stitches or staples - into a thick paper cover; or to a book with this type of binding. ... The Indies, on the display globe of the Field Museum, Chicago The Indies or East Indies (or East India) is a term used to describe lands of South and South-East Asia, occupying all of the former British India, the present Indian Union, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and... Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge located on Port Jackson Port Jackson, containing Sydney Harbour, is the natural harbour of Sydney, Australia. ...

Written by Swiss pastor Johann David Wyss, and edited by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss, this novel was intended to teach his four sons about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world and self-reliance. Pierre-Jules Hetzel modernized and changed the story, republishing it under the title of The New Swiss Robinson^[1]. Johann David Wyss (Bern, March 4, 1743 - 1818) was a Swiss author, best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson (1812), based on the Robinson Crusoe adventure by Daniel Defoe. ... Johann Rudolf Wyss (1782 - 1830) was a Swiss author, writer & folklorist. ...

Most of the episodes (in the book) have to do with Christian-oriented lessons.

Although movie and TV adaptations have often given them the surname Robinson, which is not a Swiss name, the "Robinson" of the title refers to Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday by Carl Offterdinger Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. ...

Plot introduction

Making for a deserted island, they discover and develop all the necessaries for a good life - showing incredible resourcefulness in adapting and utilising the island's many natural resources (which come from several different continents) and a large quantity of provisions salvaged from the ship. They build a tree house, among other things (which has survived into film adaptations bearing few other resemblances to the original book). The article on Mount Desert Island, an island off the coast of Maine, redirects here. ...

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

The novel has in one form or another been adapted in a number of versions.

• Swiss Family Robinson (1940)
• Swiss Cheese Family Robinson (1947)
• Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
• The Swiss Family Robinson (1976)
• Mountain Family Robinson (1980)
• The New Swiss Family Robinson (1998 film)^[2]
• The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson (1998)

The adaptions into television series have also been numerous Swiss Family Robinson is a 1940 film directed by Edward Ludwig and based on the novel The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss. ... The 1960 Disney film Swiss Family Robinson is one of many movies and parodies based on the novel The Swiss Family Robinson. ...

• Lost in Space (1965), was known as the "Space Family Robinson"
• Swiss Family Robinson (1975) - American series starring Martin Milner
• Swiss Family Robinson (1976) - Canadian series starring Chris Wiggins
• The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone of the Mysterious Island - (1981) anime series.
• English Family Robinson (1957)

There have been a number of adaptions into television movies Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series produced between 1965 and 1968 by television producer Irwin Allen. ... Martin Milner (born December 28, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actor best known for his performances as Officer Pete Malloy in the cult-classic Adam-12. ... Swiss Family Robinson was a Canadian television drama series, based on Johann David Wyss novel The Swiss Family Robinson. ... Chris Wiggins was born on January 13, 1931 in Blackpool, England. ...

• The Swiss Family Robinson (1958)
• The Swiss Family Robinson (1973)
• The Swiss Family Robinson (1973)
• The Swiss Family Robinson (1975)
• Beverly Hills Family Robinson (1998)
• Swiss Family Robinson Lost in the Jungle (2000)
• Stranded (2002), aka "The Swiss Family Robinson"

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See also

Classic, famous island/seafaring novels for children

• Robinson Crusoe (1719), by Daniel Defoe
• Treasure Island (1883), by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday by Carl Offterdinger Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. ... Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe (1660 [?] â€“ April 1731) was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. ... Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of buccaneers and buried gold. First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialised in the childrens magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island. ... Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. ...

References

• Weber, Marie-Hélène (1993). Robinson et robinsonnades : étude comparée de "Robinson Crusoe" de Defoe, "Le Robinson suisse" de J.R. Wyss, "L'Ile mystérieuse" de J. Verne, "Sa majesté des mouches" de W. Golding, "Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique" de M. Tournier, Ed.. Universitaires du Sud.

Footnotes

1. ^ The Swiss Robinson. Retrieved on 2006-09-27.
2. ^ The New Swiss Family Robinson at the Internet Movie Database

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External links

• The Swiss Family Robinson, available freely at Project Gutenberg