Item
Vaeddeløbet
- Title
- en_US Vaeddeløbet
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: Danish
- en_US Original language: eng
- en_US 1. oplag
- en_US Caroline Repchuk
- Creator
- en_US Jay, Alison See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Jay, Alison
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:58:57Z
- en_US 2009-05
- en_US 2001
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:58:57Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2001
- Abstract
- en_US This book was a surprising find in the Milwaukee Public Library's shop. It presents The Race, published by Chronicle in either 2001 or 2002. I have had it down for 2002, but this book claims the date of 2001 for both itself and its original. This book is marked as a first edition. Let me repeat some of my comments from that version. This is a large-format (9¾ x 11¼) landscape-formatted development of TH. A map early in the book shows a race starting from London and reaching to New York. Hare takes off in a car that leaves a cloud of dust. Tortoise cleverly boards an ocean liner. Hare runs into trouble; picture-postcards show him on ski-lift gondolas and Venetian gondolas. He is even thrown off by a donkey in Greece. Hot air balloons and kayaks continue the theme. After a boat ride of his own, Hare takes a plane from Hong Kong. After a stop in Australia, he gets into a fast plane--and then jumps out of it near the Statue of Liberty. If you look closely in the Statue's crown, Tortoise is there waving to Hare. The book's paintings are given a deliberate retro feel by showing cracked paint. It is all quite a bother about a simple point, but I suppose that observation only confirms this story's moral.
- Identifier
- en_US 9788779055926
- en_US 6744 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US dan
- Publisher
- en_US Klematis
- en_US Risskov, Denmark
- Subject
- en_US PZ54.2.R355 Va 2001 See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books