The Adventures of Captain Harvey
Subtitle: A Modern Odyssey
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Shield Pub
Published: November 1997
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780966144109
Subjects: Poe, Edgar Allan, Whitman, Dante, Shakespeare, A.A. Milne, Cervantes, Twain
Genres: Humor; Adventure
First sentence: Tell me, O muse, of that unstable hero who traveled far and wide after his home was destroyed by fire. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations whose men and women he became; moreover, he suffered much by his mutability while trying to save his own life and the lives of all others. Tell me of these things, O daughter of Zeus, beginning the tale at whatever point you choose....
Description: Captain Harvey takes on the personality of whatever and whomever he encounters - Whitman, Poe, Shakespeare, Don Quijote, a dog, a cat, a rock, a minotaur, a shark, an eel, an oak, a heffalump, a shopping cart, a cockroach, a rat - as he wanders around the Mediterranean retracing the steps of Odysseus, Dante, Socrates....
Notes: "The Adventures of Captain Harvey" can be read a simple adventure novel, or as an intertextual discussion of some of the greatest works of Occidental literature.