The Swiss Family Robinson

The Swiss Family Robinson. The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel written by Johann David Wyss. Interesting fact. The book was written by Johann Dawid Wyss. Characters. William – The patriarch of the Robinson family. The book is about. A family which is traveling in a sail boat to Australia. The family starts to settle. William knew he would be stranded for a long time. The family settle. How the book ends. Life in the island during winter was extremely harsh.

The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel written by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship was sailing o Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and crushed in the East Indies.

The book was written by Johann Dawid Wyss, 2 years later corrected and edited by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss and 5 years later the book was illustrated by Johann Emmanuel Wyss, his second son.

William – The patriarch of the Robinson family. Elizabeth – The loving mother of the Robinson family. Fritz – The oldest of the four boys, he is 15. Ernest – The second oldest of the boys, he is 13. Jack – The third oldest of the boys, 11 years old. Franz – The youngest of the boys, he is 8 years old when the story opens.