Willis the Pilot by Johanna Spyri Fiction Historical

<p><strong>The work known as the <em>Swiss Family Robinson</em> has long enjoyed a well-merited popularity and has been perused by a multitude of readers young and old with profit as well as pleasure.</strong> A Swiss clergyman resolved to better his fortune by emigration. He embarked with his wife and four sons -- the latter ranging from eight to fifteen years of age -- for one of the newly-discovered islands in the Pacific Ocean. Along the coast of New Guinea they encountered a violent storm arose and finally cast it a wreck upon an unknown coast. The present volume is virtually a continuation of this narrative. The careers of the four sons -- Frank Ernest Fritz and Jack -- are taken up where the preceding chronicler left them off. . . .</p>