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I've been reading Swiss Family Robinson to my children and we've learned several valuable things that the author didn't know he was teaching us.
1)we now know how so many species could be wiped out by Europeans- the book is quite the shock to children raised with modern ecological sensibilities
2)just how unfortunate attitudes towards 'savages' could be, fortunately none have been encountered so far
3) the lack of knowledge or concern about ecosystems and animal ranges, the land as described can not exist
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