The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear - Hardcover

Moers, Walter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436275007 ISBN 13: 9780436275005

Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

Captain Bluebear is a bear with blue fur, a creature as unique as the fantastic adventures he undergoes. Unlike cats, which have only nine lives, bluebears have twenty-seven. This is fortunate, because our hero is forever avoiding disaster by a paw's breadth. In this remarkable book, Captain Bluebear tells the story of his first thirteen-and-a-half lives spent on the mysterious continent of Zamonia, where intelligence is an infectious disease and water flows uphill, where headless giants roam deserts made of sugar, and where only Captain Bluebear's courage and ingenuity enable him to escape the dangers that lie in wait for him around every corner. In company with our indomitable hero, we enter a realm of the imagination that combines the fantasy of "Lord of the Rings" and "The Neverending Story" with the humour of Baron Munchausen - a wonderland where anything can exist except boredom.

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Review:

"A yarn of drollery, deeper meaning and sheer lunacy" (Rolling Stone)

"Sheer craziness" (Daily Telegraph)

"The most entertaining book in years" (Frankfurter Allemeine Zt)

"Moers' creative mind is like J. K. Rowling on ecstasy" (Detroit News)

Book Description:

'Marvellously fantastical' - Sunday Express

About this edition

• Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0436275007
• ISBN 13: 9780436275005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 704