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"Sis casts a spell of enchantment . . . Jan Welzl never had a better friend." -- The Washington Post Book World One hundred years ago a young man named Jan Welzl left his home in Europe and headed for the Far North. He rode off in a horse-drawn cart, traded the cart for a sled pulled by reindeer, and was gone for thirty years. Like Robinson Crusoe, he turned adversity into adventure and the wilderness into a dream, where anything could happen and anyone could be a hero. In this reissue of one of his earlier works, award-winning author/artist Peter Sís explores the life of Czech folk hero Jan Welzl and re-creates his extraordinary Arctic odyssey. Mixing fact with legend, he paints the fascinating story of a little-known explorer and the native people who became his teachers and his friends. With maps, storyboards, panoramas, and even a myth told in pictographs, Peter Sís has concocted a visual feast.
Acquisto del libro
A Small Tall Tale From The Far Far North, Petr Sís
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2001
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- (Copertina rigida)
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- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Petr Sís
- Pubblicato
- 2001
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 40
- ISBN10
- 0374370753
- ISBN13
- 9780374370756
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Libri per bambine e bambini, Storie vere, Biografie, Avventura, Letteratura ceca, Autobiografie e memorie, Non-fiction per ragazzi, Storie, Cultura e Società, Pubblicazioni di divulgazione, Storia per bambini e ragazzi, XIX-XX secolo, Esquimesi, Inuit
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1993
- Titolo originale
- A Small Tall Tale from the Far Far North
- Valutazione
- 3,9 su 5
- Descrizione
- "Sis casts a spell of enchantment . . . Jan Welzl never had a better friend." -- The Washington Post Book World One hundred years ago a young man named Jan Welzl left his home in Europe and headed for the Far North. He rode off in a horse-drawn cart, traded the cart for a sled pulled by reindeer, and was gone for thirty years. Like Robinson Crusoe, he turned adversity into adventure and the wilderness into a dream, where anything could happen and anyone could be a hero. In this reissue of one of his earlier works, award-winning author/artist Peter Sís explores the life of Czech folk hero Jan Welzl and re-creates his extraordinary Arctic odyssey. Mixing fact with legend, he paints the fascinating story of a little-known explorer and the native people who became his teachers and his friends. With maps, storyboards, panoramas, and even a myth told in pictographs, Peter Sís has concocted a visual feast.