The Swiss Family Robinson

I liked this book written by Johann Wyss. A Swiss pastor, his wife, and four sons, are traveling on a ship destined for a colony in Australia, when it is damaged and all of the crew vanishes while near an island in the East Indies. The family manages to get ashore and is able to use supplies from the wrecked ship. They encounter a wide variety of animals and plants, while thriving on the island.

The novel was first published in 1812. Pastor Johann David Wyss started writing the novel, and then it was edited and completed by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss and illustrated by another son, Johann Emmanuel Wyss. Rudolf also wrote the Swiss national anthem. The English novel Robinson Crusoe was published in 1719. Robinson is not a Swiss surname, and the title basically refers to a Swiss family version of Robinson Crusoe.