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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.
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A Small Tall Tale From The Far Far North, Petr Sís
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- Publicado en
- 2001
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- Título
- A Small Tall Tale From The Far Far North
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Petr Sís
- Editorial
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Publicado en
- 2001
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Páginas
- 40
- ISBN10
- 0374370753
- ISBN13
- 9780374370756
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Libros infantiles, Historias reales, Biografías, Aventura, Literatura checa, Autobiografías y memorias, No Ficción infantil, Cuentos, Cultura y Sociedad, Publicaciones de divulgación científica, Historia para niños y jóvenes, Siglo XIX-XX, Esquimales, Inuit
- Primera publicación
- 1993
- Título original
- A Small Tall Tale from the Far Far North
- Calificación
- 3,9 de 5
- Descripción
- "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.