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Johann David Wyss
A Swiss pastor, his wife and their four sons are shipwrecked on the way to a new life and left alone on an unknown tropical coast. With what they can save…
A Swiss pastor, his wife and their four sons are shipwrecked on the way to a new life and left alone on an unknown tropical coast. With what they can save from the wreck and a great deal of ingenuity, they build a house in the branches of a giant tree, tame animals, plant crops, make candles, sugar and boats, and explore their new country year after year. The father turns every task into a lesson in natural history and good sense, which gives the book its old-fashioned, encyclopaedic charm.
Johann David Wyss made up the story for his own children; his son Johann Rudolf published it in German in 1812, and many English versions followed. Mark F. Smith reads this one alone, in almost thirteen hours.
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