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Ein weisser Elefant, ein Geschenk fur die Queen, verschwindet auf dem Transport von Asien nach England. Seine Spur verliert sich in New York. Inspektor Blunt verspricht, die Diebe zu finden. Reichen die besten Ermittler der Stadt und eine Belohnung in der Hohe von $100.000 aus, um den Elefanten wieder zu finden?show moreISBN: 9783852720029Nr pagini: 63 pagesFormat: 151 x 209 x 7mm | 130gAnul aparitiei: 01 May 2007...

An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's inimitable portrait of `the great Father of Waters'. Part memoir, part travelogue, it expresses the full range of Twain's literary personality, and remains the most vivid, boisterous and provocative account of the cultural and societal history of the Mississippi Valley, from `the golden age' of steamboating to the violence wrought by the Civil War.This new editi...

Following on from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884-5) Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) became one of Mark Twain's most popular books. Again we meet his world famous characters: Tom Sawyer, 'Nigger Jim', and Huck Finn - together now on a fantastical balloon journey across the Atlantic to meet lions and Bedouins in the Sahara and retrace something of Twain's own expedition to the Holy Land in his best-selling The Innocents Abroad (1869).Later, in Tom Sawyer Dete...