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Willis the Pilot, by Johanna Spyri
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Title: Willis the Pilot
Author: Paul Adrien
Translator: Henry Frith
Release Date: November 26, 2004 [EBook #14172] [Most recently updated June 5, 2005]
Language: English
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WILLIS THE PILOT,
A Sequel to the Swiss Family Robinson:
OR,
ADVENTURES OF AN EMIGRANT FAMILY WRECKED ON AN UNKNOWN COAST OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
INTERSPERSED WITH
TALES, INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL, AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF NATURAL HISTORY.
BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS. NEW YORK: LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM. 1875.
LITHOTYPED BY COWLES AND COMPANY At the Office of the American Stereotype Company, PHOENIX BUILDING, BOSTON.
ILLUSTRATED BY KILBURN & MALLORY
PREFACE.
The love of adventure that characterises the youth of the present day, and the growing tendency of the surplus European population to seek abroad the comforts that are often denied at home, gives absorbing interest to the narratives of old colonists and settlers in the wonderful regions of the New World. Accordingly, the work known as the Swiss Family Robinson<