![]() ![]() They build a bridge across a stream, granting them access to the territory beyond the beach they arm themselves with guns and ammunition from the ship’s stores and hunt for food they retreat from the oppressive heat of the beach to a shady wooded grove where they build a treehouse and they assemble a small sailing vessel found packed in the ship’s hold. The family immediately explores the surrounding area. They establish camp on the beach and, after several trips back to the wreckage, gather enough supplies for short-term survival. The wreckage is wedged between rocks within sight of land, giving the family precious little time to fashion a makeshift canoe in which they make landfall on the nearby island. ![]() The crew escapes in the lifeboats, leaving the family stranded aboard the shattered vessel. ![]() ![]() En route to Australia, the Robinsons’ ship is wrecked in a turbulent storm. Set in the late 1700s, The Swiss Family Robinson recounts the ten-year adventure of Robinson, his wife Elizabeth, and their four sons, Fritz, Ernest, Jack, and Franz on an uninhabited island in the south Pacific. This study guide refers to the 2014 edition published by Townsend Press. ![]()
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