Great gung-ho stuff

Accessible and enjoyable read for boys and girls of ll upwards who like adventure stories

Thrilling

Full of accurate and interesting survival tips as well as being an exciting story full of tense moments

Beneath its cold white cover a story of magnitude unfolds

All demand to be read in translation of the originals and not sanitized retellings. Here, by examining letters, journals, annotations and posthumously unavailable papers, Zipes found some hitherto untranslated "ironic and macabre fables, humorous anecdotes, stories about the crusades, Norwegian legend, one 'feminist' tale among other things