Baron Munchausen; fifteen truly tall tales, by Raspe and others.
By: Retold by Doris Orgel. Selected and illustrated by Willi Baum.
Contributors: Raspe, Rudolf Erich, 1737-1794.; Baum, Willi, illus.
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Published: 1971
Place of publication: [Reading, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Short stories.
Other titles: Baron Munchausen's narrative of his marvellous travels.
Notes: "An Addisonian Press book."
Table of contents: title: What to do if caught between a lion and a crocodile.; title: Trees flying through the sky and other amazing results of a storm.; title: Dangling from a steeple early in the morning.; title: Me and the cherry-tree stag.; title: My poor fur cloak gone mad.; title: My favorite dog.; title: How I got my superb Lithuanian horse.; title: My superb Lithuanian's laurels.; title: I throw a hatchet to the moon.; title: I climb to the moon and get my hatchet down.; title: Frozen airs: I carry a carriage.; title: The airs unfreeze.; title: Of eagles' wings across the world.; title: I continue my flight with the eagles.; title: Astonishing aspects of life upon the moon.; title: More facts of life upon the moon.; title: I drop in on Vulcan and Venus.; title: I am swallowed by a vast sea monster.; title: Historical note.