Description
Fine dust jacket , green paper with illustration. The Fine binding is green cloth with gilt lettering and design. Black-and-white illustrations by Charles Folkard. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.7″ tall x 5.5″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Inspired by Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe many eighteenth century writers adopted the theme of shipwreck and survival. So numerous were the imitations of the original that a special word ‘Robinsonnades was created to describe them. The most famous of these Robinsonnades’ was The Swiss Family Robinson, written by Johann David Wyss for his four sons The Wyss family liked to read and discuss travel and adventure stories, and it was Robinson Crusoe that led them to imagine the life of a family shipwrecked, like Crusoe, on a distant island. Whilst The Swiss Family Robinson is based on the Wyss family. the setting shows an imaginative disregard for the facts of nature, for though the tropical island on which the family is shipwrecked is “in the neighborhood of New Guinea; it abounds with plants and animals from every climate in the world.
