The Swiss family Robinson; or, The adventures of a shipwrecked family on an uninhabited island near New Guinea.

Date:

[date of publication not identified]

Author:

Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH W995 S94 1900Z LOCAL

Publisher:

A.L. Burt

Physical Description:

viii, 292 pages illustrations (some color) 20 cm

Notes:

Illustrated by wood engravings. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

A.L. Burt, n.d. [turn-of-the-century reprint of 1879 Kingston translation and adaptation from a French translation of the original German]; 'thirty page illustratons and eight original colored plates'; spine and front cover titles and designs printed in orange on green cloth, spine minor titles printed in black, vignettes on spine (pine trees) and front cover (boys turning a turtle) printed in orange, white and black

Subjects:

Families Juvenile fiction, Survival Juvenile fiction, Shipwrecks Juvenile fiction, Islands Juvenile fiction, Families, Islands, Shipwrecks, and Survival

Genres/Forms:

Fiction and Juvenile works