Shooting peccaries Burgerbibliothek Bern, FA Wyss 125.3, S. These archives also include the four-volume, 841-page leather-bound original handwritten manuscript, with illustrations by one of Wyss’s four sons, Johann Emanuel. The curiously addictive smell of old books contrasts with the clinical “special reading room” of the Bern Burgerbibliothek External link, which houses a wide range of historical archives. The edges of the roughly 200-year-old, 300-page book are fraying, but the quality is generally good the Gothic typeface takes a while to get used to, but the printing is sharp. An instructive book for children and friends of children who live in cities and in the countryside” – was an immediate hit in Switzerland and abroad. The publisher who wrote the preface for the first printed edition from 1812 of Der Schweizerische Robinson certainly knew his target audience.ĭespite these seemingly limiting requirements, Swiss Family Robinson – or to give it its full catchy title, “Swiss Family Robinson or the shipwrecked Swiss preacher and his family. It is not, however, for all children, but only for those who read with some understanding, who have a command of general terms of natural history and geography, and who have been versed in a range of knowledge from the better schools for 8- to 14-year-olds.” “This work is, as the title has said, for children and friends of children. Johann David Wyss Foto: Jürg Bernhardt/ Burgerbibliothek Bern
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