英文原版6-The Swiss Family Robinson(海角一乐园)

When a Swiss family are shipwrecked On an island sOmewhere in the South Seas， they display extraordinary resOurCefulness in tranSfOrming it into a home away from home．The island's lush veqetation and abundant wildllfe—including buffaoo alo，iguana，kangaroos and penguins—along with some liVestock，guns and tools reScued from the ship，provide them with alI they need tO build a CaStle in the treeS。make CIOtheS，COOk exotic meals and carrry on a happy famIly life in the place they calI New Switzerland．
The bOOk's abidinq fascinatlon lies ln lts cOlOurful desCriptionS Of landSCapes，Such as Salt CrVstal Cave，JackaI River and Prospect Hill, and the wealth of infOrmatiOn abOut the natural wOrId the familV encOunters．But what happens when theV reSCUe an EngliSh gIrl from the OCean? Will they ever want tO leave their island paradlse?

Johann David Wyss，bom in Bem in 1743，worked as a pastor at a Church in his native City．He wrote the Story Of a shipwrecked family to entenain his fOur SonS and teach them about nature andfamiIy vaIues，deliberateIy adapting DanieI Defoe's R0binson Crusoe．which had been pubIished in 1719．
His son JOhann RudoIf Wyss，born in1782，became a professor of philOsophyat Bem University and was well—knownln his day as a folklorist．He is ChIetIyremembered today for his part in editing his father's manuscript and arranglng its pubIlcation in 1813，five years befOre hisfather's death．The younger Wyss also pubIished Several folk tales and wrotehe Swiss nationaI anthem before hisdeath in 1830 The swiss familyRobinson waS widely translated and wasmade into a 1960 filrn Starrlng JOhn Mills and Dorothy MCGuire aS the ingenious parents．