Menshaosen's Wonderful Journey - World Young Adult Literature Classics Collection

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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: The protagonist of this book, Baron von Munchausen (1720-1797), was a real German nobleman, born into an aristocratic family, and himself a baron. He loved traveling, exploring, and performing acts of heroism. He had served in the Russian army and fought against the Turks. Due to his rich life experiences, keen insight, and imaginative mind, coupled with an unbridled sense of optimism, he could recount many of the adventures he had encountered abroad upon returning to Germany. Because he often embellished his stories with vivid fantasies and artistic exaggeration, he could captivate his audience. Baron von Munchausen is a household name in Germany, known to both men and women and children alike, and has long become a symbol of boasting and arrogance.