Audun and His Bear
B/w illus. by Esta Nesbitt printed on multicolored paper. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1968). Square 8vo. Pictorial cloth publisher's library binding. Unpaginated. First Edition. FINE in d.w. with lightly soiled d/j & light wear at extremities. [62275]
Long ago, a young man from Iceland named Audun longed to travel abroad. So he saved up just enough money to support three carefree years of wandering and set sail for Greenland. No sooner did he arrive, than he couldn't resist buying a white polar bear, complelety emptying his pockets. He manages to have a journey full of mishap and adventure and to turn his "white elephant" into a lifetime fortune. Based on an ancient Icelandic "strand story."
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