TIMELESS CLASSICS IN AN EASY TO NAVIGATE APP
This Volume 2 contains the 2 timeless classics of Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson and The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss.
A mysterious map, pirates, and pieces of eight When young Jim Hawkins finds a map to pirates gold he starts on an adventure that takes him from his English village to a desert island with the murderous Black Dog, halfmad Ben Gunn, and of course Long John Silver. Arr Jim lad R.L. Stevenson 18501894 was born in Scotland and travelled extensively in California and the south Pacific.
The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays the right stuff and builds a charming colony that later, they do not want to leave. Cut off from the comforts and companionship of other humans, they use a familiarity with natural history and biology to find the resources and build the tools to construct a canoe, weave cloth, irrigate a garden, and turn an immense hollow tree into a lofty house with a spiral staircase. They domesticate buffaloes, wild asses, and monkeys. They establish farms and plantations. And finally, they have a terrifying encounter with natives from a nearby island.
Johann David Wyss, the author, did not live to complete his tale. Storytellers over the years have injected so many episodes into the various versions that probably none closely match the original. Indeed, the Baroness de Montholieu expanded the book from two volumes into five when she translated it into French. This effort was retranslated into English in 1849 by W.H.G. Kingston, abridging the edition severely. It follows the British sensibilities of the period in terms of sentence structure and emphasis.
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