Sole survivors of a shipwreck, the Robinson family—father, mother and four sons—must use all their resourcefulness and ingenuity when they are cast away on a deserted island.

How they make use of varied talents to produce everything needed for a wonderful life on the island is told in fascinating detail. Between them, they learn to make their own bread and butter, china, soap, carpets and boats, tame wild animals to work for them, discover salt, sugar, cotton, flax and honey, and even make rubber boots and a flour mill.

Every day is a new adventure and a new discovery for the Robinson family. At the end of ten years, they are living in comfort and contentment in the beautiful home they have built on the island when a chance of escape is offered, and they must choose between their island paradise and the outside...

From the dust jacket of Junior Deluxe Edition

Suppose you were shipwrecked on a desert island, how would you manage?

There is probably no boy or girl who has not dreamed sometime or another of what a wonderful adventure this could be. Here is a story that shows you just what such a life might be like.

When this now famous mother and father and their four children first reached land, they had to depend on their wits and use all their resourcefulness in order to survive.

How each of them made use of their varied talents and ingenuity to produce everything they needed for a full and wonderful life is told with so much fascinating detail that you will feel as if you were there yourself, joining in all of their many experiments, alarms, and excursions.

Between them they learned to do such varied things as taming wild animals and birds, riding buffaloes, weaving flax and making their own soap, china, carpets, seamless rubber boots, and all the other things they needed; solving in one way or another any awkward problems they came across. Together they built a boat, constructed several different homes, beginning with one in a tree, even making staircases when they became necessary.

They made such thrilling discoveries too. A crystal grotto, an oyster bed full of pearls, and finally they even found another shipwrecked mariner. And who that turned out to be and what happened when the time came to leave the island they had made into such a wonderful home are perhaps the greatest surprises of all.

From the dust jacket of DoubleDay Classic