The 13½ lives of Captain Bluebear
Subtitle: a novel
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Die 13 ½ Leben des Käpt’n Blaubär
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780436275005
Description: 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.