The Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann David Wyss
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818
- Title
- The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures on a Desert Island
- Credits
- Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Family life -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 34808
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34808
- Release Date
- January 1, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Swiss Family Robinson
- 2.JEAN RUDOLPH WYSS — THE WINDERMERE SERIES — WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY MILO WINTER — RAND McNALLY & COMPANY CHICAGO; NEW YORK — Illustrations Copyright, 1916, By Rand McNally & Co. — The Rand-McNally Press Chicago — There stood Fritz with his gun to his shoulder pointing it at a huge shark
- 3.THE CONTENTS
- 4.THE ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
- 6.CHAPTER I — SHIPWRECKED
- 7.CHAPTER II — THE FIRST EXPLORING EXPEDITION — The monkeys seized all the cocoanuts within their reach and sent them down upon us
- 8.CHAPTER III — OUR HOME IN THE GIANT TREE
- 9.CHAPTER IV — SOME USEFUL DISCOVERIES—A COMICAL INCIDENT
- 10.CHAPTER V — A SECOND VISIT TO THE WRECK — Jack took the unsuspecting birds by surprise
- 11.CHAPTER VI — HOW WE BUILT THE PINNACE
- 12.CHAPTER VII — AT FALCONHURST AGAIN—BAGGING A BUFFALO
- 13.CHAPTER VIII — IMPROVING OUR TREE DWELLING
- 14.CHAPTER IX — THE SALT PALACE AND THE NEW FARMHOUSE — "Help! or he will pull me into the water"
- 15.CHAPTER X — THE WAR WITH THE APES—OUR HOME IN THE SALT PALACE
- 16.CHAPTER XI — A DANGEROUS VISITOR AND ITS VICTIM
- 17.CHAPTER XII — THE CRYSTAL CAVE—BAGGING A BEAR
- 18.CHAPTER XIII — BREAKING IN A REFRACTORY STEED — So greatly was the speed of the ostrich checked that Jack overtook him
- 19.CHAPTER XIV — BUILDING THE CAJACK——A PLENTIFUL HARVEST
- 20.CHAPTER XV — ADVENTURES OF THE BOYS AT WOODLANDS——THE ELEPHANT TRAIL — Then the walrus sought refuge among these rocks — Up rose the hideous head and gaping jaws of a hippopotamus
- 21.CHAPTER XVI — TEN YEARS AFTERWARD—A STRANGE MESSAGE
- 22.CHAPTER XVII — HOW FRITZ FOUND THE FAIR STRANGER — JUNO, A servant true lies here; A faithful friend, A Dog, To all most dear; Who met her end Fighting right bravely in her master's cause. — There, with glaring eyes and his great tail swaying to and fro, I saw an immense tiger
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII — A SAIL!—FAREWELL TO SHARK ISLAND
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