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)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82055

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