A small tall tale from the far Far North / by Peter Sis.
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TextPublication details: New York : Frances Foster Books, 2001.Edition: 1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux edDescription: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0374370753
- [E] 21
- PZ7.S6219 Sm 2001
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Historical Events | Sis, Peter | Checked out | 05/20/2024 | 33111004089237 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"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.
With the help of Eskimos, Jan Welzl survives a perilous journey from central Europe to the Arctic regions in the late 1800s.