More Tales of Faraway Folk
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Domanska, Janina. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2326661
No jacket. Boards lightly soiled, ink name and bookplate remains on front endpaper.
x, 93 pp. CONTENTS: Why the fish do not speak (Finland) -- The bat (Altai, Central Asia) -- Why the bear's tail is short (Lapland, Northern Europe) -- How the bee got his bumble (Altai Mountains, southern Siberia) -- Why the hare's lip is split (Estonia) -- Why the cat and dog cannot live at peace (Ukraine) -- Why the bear cannot play the kantele (Karelia) -- The strongest (Nanai, Amur River, Russian Far East and China) -- Master and man (Caucasus) -- The forty whoppers (Kazakh, Central Asia) -- A Sherlock Holmes of the steppes (Kazakh, Central Asia) -- The cuckoo (Nenetz, Arctic coast of Europe and Asia) -- The greedy rich man (Votyak or Udmurt, foothills of the Ural Mountains) -- The girl in the moon (Yakut, eastern Siberia) -- A time for everything (Russia).
Price: $15.00