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The Swiss Family Robinson, the Glossary

The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson, "The Swiss Robinson") is a novel by the Swiss author Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies.^[1]

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1810s children's books
1812 German-language novels
19th-century Swiss novels
Children's books set in the Indian Ocean
Novels about survival skills
Novels set in the Indian Ocean
Novels set on fictional islands
Novels set on uninhabited islands
Swiss children's novels
Swiss novels adapted into films
Swiss novels adapted into television shows

Acceptance

Acceptance in human psychology is a person's recognition and assent to the finality of a situation without attempting to change or protest it.

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Animal husbandry

Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.

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Apple II

The Apple II series of microcomputers was initially designed by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), and launched in 1977 with the Apple II model that gave the series its name.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Beverly Hills Family Robinson

Beverly Hills Family Robinson is a 1997 American comedy television film directed by Troy Miller and written by T.C. Smith.

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Cast Away

Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy.

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Charlotte Smith (writer)

Charlotte Smith (née Turner; –) was an English novelist and poet of the School of Sensibility whose Elegiac Sonnets (1784) contributed to the revival of the form in England.

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Chris Wiggins

Christopher John Wiggins (January 13, 1931 – February 19, 2017) was an English-born Canadian actor.

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Classics Illustrated

Classics Illustrated is an American comic book/magazine series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Les Misérables, Moby-Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad.

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Commodore 64

The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas).

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Cooperation

Cooperation (written as co-operation in British English and, with a varied usage along time, coöperation) takes place when a group of organisms works or acts together for a collective benefit to the group as opposed to working in competition for selfish individual benefit.

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (born Daniel Foe; 1660 – 24 April 1731) was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy.

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David Carradine

David Carradine (born John Arthur Carradine Jr.; December 8, 1936 – June 3, 2009) was an American actor, director, and producer, whose career included over 200 major and minor roles in film, television and on stage, spanning more than four decades.

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Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor and film director.

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Disney+

Disney+ is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming media service owned and operated by Disney Streaming, the streaming division of Disney Entertainment, a major business segment of the Walt Disney Company.

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East Indies

The East Indies (or simply the Indies) is a term used in historical narratives of the Age of Discovery.

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Festival of Family Classics

Festival of Family Classics is a Rankin/Bass animated anthology series that originally aired between 1972 and 1973.

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Frugality

Frugality is the quality of being frugal, sparing, thrifty, prudent, or economical in the consumption of resources such as food, time or money, and avoiding waste, lavishness or extravagance.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Heidi

Heidi is a work of children's fiction published between 1880 and 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning (Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and Heidi: How She Used What She Learned (Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat). The Swiss Family Robinson and Heidi are 19th-century Swiss novels, Swiss novels adapted into films and Swiss novels adapted into television shows.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Isabelle de Montolieu

Isabelle de Montolieu (1751–1832) was a Swiss novelist and translator.

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Jackal

Jackals are canids native to Africa and Eurasia.

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James Keach

James Keach (born December 7, 1947) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Jane Seymour (actress)

Jane Seymour (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951) is a British actress.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer.

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Johann David Wyss

Johann David Wyss (28 May 1743 – 11 January 1818) was a Swiss author, best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson (Der schweizerische Robinson) (1812).

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Johanna Spyri

Johanna Louise Spyri (12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories.

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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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Laraine Day

Laraine Day (born La Raine Johnson, October 13, 1920 – November 10, 2007) was an American actress, radio and television commentator, and former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) contract star.

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Lost in Space

Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series, created and produced by Irwin Allen, which originally aired between 1965 and 1968 on CBS.

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Lost in Space (2018 TV series)

Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series following the adventures of a family of space colonists whose ship veers off course.

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Lost in Space (film)

Lost in Space is a 1998 American science-fiction adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins, and starring William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, Gary Oldman, and Heather Graham.

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Martin Milner

Martin Sam Milner (December 28, 1931 – September 6, 2015) was an American actor and radio host.

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Mary Jane Godwin

Mary Jane Godwin (née de Vial; pseudonymed Mary Jane Clairmont; 1768 – 17 June 1841) was an English author, publisher, and bookseller.

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Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific

Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific is a robinsonade children's novel published in 1841 by Frederick Marryat. The Swiss Family Robinson and Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific are children's books set on islands.

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Mighty Mouse

Mighty Mouse is an American animated character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox.

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Monkey

Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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Outline of physical science

Physical science is a branch of natural science that studies non-living systems, in contrast to life science.

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Owen Wister

Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer and historian, considered the "father" of western fiction.

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Patty Duke

Anna Marie "Patty" Duke (December 14, 1946 – March 29, 2016) was an American actress.

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Perils of the Wild

Perils of the Wild is a 1925 American silent adventure film serial directed by Francis Ford.

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Pinnace (ship's boat)

As a ship's boat, the pinnace is a light boat, propelled by oars or sails, carried aboard merchant and war vessels in the Age of Sail to serve as a tender.

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Port Jackson

Port Jackson, consisting of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, is the ria or natural harbour of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Preacher

A preacher is a person who delivers sermons or homilies on religious topics to an assembly of people.

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Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment

Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment (founded and formerly known as Videocraft International, Ltd. and Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc.) was an American production company located in New York City, and known for its seasonal television specials, usually done in stop motion animation.

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Richard Thomas (actor)

Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor.

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Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The Swiss Family Robinson and Robinson Crusoe are novels about survival skills, novels set on fictional islands and novels set on uninhabited islands.

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Robinsonade

Robinsonade is a literary genre of fiction wherein the protagonist is suddenly separated from civilization, usually by being shipwrecked or marooned on a secluded and uninhabited island, and must improvise the means of their survival from the limited resources at hand.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swiss_Family_Robinson

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See also

1810s children's books

1812 German-language novels

19th-century Swiss novels

Children's books set in the Indian Ocean

Novels about survival skills

Novels set in the Indian Ocean

Novels set on fictional islands

Novels set on uninhabited islands

Swiss children's novels

Swiss novels adapted into films

Swiss novels adapted into television shows

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