This spectacularly beautiful, inventive picture-book journal of life with the Alaskan Eskimos at the turn of the century is a brilliant leap of the imagination and the embodiment of the aphorism "every picture tells a story". Full color throughout.
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This spectacularly beautiful, inventive picture-book journal of life with the Alaskan Eskimos at the turn of the century is a brilliant leap of the imagination and the embodiment of the aphorism "every picture tells a story". Full color throughout.
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Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published:
1993
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17963407914
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Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published:
1993
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17672806183
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Seller's Description:
Peter Sis color illustrations. Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Book CONDITION: Very Good+ 1993 Alfred A. Knopf hardcover (decorated boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Problems: DJ shows some edge wear both top and bottom edges; book appears pre-read but unevenly. It's not a terrible condition, but it is for sure not even "as new." CONTENT: Sis draws on boyhood memories for this imaginative yarn about a maybe-real, maybe-fictitious Czech explorer, Jan Welzl. As the tale begins, Welzl breaks free from a drab existence and lights out for the Far North, where he encounters treacherous storms, a mysterious golden mountain on the horizon, northern lights, and kindly Eskimo hunters who teach him their traditions and a host of survival skills. When gold diggers arrive and threaten his newfound friends' peaceful existence, Welzl outwits the intruders. The story itself is slight, a fragment really, but readers are borne rapturously along on Sis's exquisitely intricate artwork. At times recalling Da Vinci's sketches, Sis's handsome pen-and-ink washes are filled with maps, intriguing borders, eclectic details and a pervasive sense of the fantastical that provides just the right balance for the story's nostalgic tone. Vignettes dropped onto antique-like papers suggest the look of an old picture album, while other spreads are joyfully quixotic (Eskimos dine under the canopy of a dinosaur skeleton; Welzl is carried down a tunnel decorated with pseudo-pictographs which illustrate a folktale). Whether or not Welzl existed is irrelevant; he certainly lives on in Sis's imagination, and will continue to thrive in the memories of Sis's readers. [Note: the DJ flap states that Jan Welzl was a Czechoslovakian author of tales of the Arctic. AND there are pages in this book that could be classified as "activity." Reading around a large curve on at least 2 levels, etc. Fascinating presentation. ]
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published:
1993
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17869310394
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Seller's Description:
Fine in Near Fine jacket. Appears to be 2nd printing, according to number line. Award stickers on cover are physical stickers. Book is in Fine condition, with no noticeable faults. Dust jacket is in Near Fine condition, with very light bumping to bottom of jacket spine.
