Swiss Family Robinson, EPUB eBook

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The novel opens with the family in the hold of a sailing ship, weathering a great storm.

The ship runs aground on a reef, and the family learns the ship's crew has taken to a lifeboat and abandoned them.

Subsequent searches for the crew yield no trace. The ship survives the night, and the family finds themselves within sight of a tropical island.

The ship's cargo of livestock, dogs, guns & powder, carpentry tools, books, a disassembled pinnace, and provisions have survived.

The family builds a raft, lashes livestock and the most valuable supplies to it, and paddles to the island, where they set up a temporary shelter.

Over the next few weeks they make several expeditions back to the ship, to empty its hold, and harvest rigging, planks, and sails.

They construct a small homestead on the island, and the ship's hull eventually breaks up in a storm and founders.

The middle of the book is a series of vignettes, covering several years.

The father and older boys explore various environments about the island, discover various (improbable) plants and animals, and build a large tree house, complete with a library.

They also use the carpentry tools and local resources to build mechanical contraptions.

Eventually, sailing the pinnace around the island's coast, they discover a European family hiding from local pirates.

They adopt their daughter (who at first masquerades as a boy), and her father returns on a rescue mission, restoring the family's contact to the outside world. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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