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The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Rudolf Raspe

Cover designer Алексей Борисович Козлов

© Rudolf Raspe, 2019

© Алексей Борисович Козлов, cover design, 2019

ISBN 978-5-0050-2077-2

Created with Ridero smart publishing system

TRAVELS OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN

CHAPTER I

(THE BARON IS SUPPOSED TO RELATE THESE ADVENTURES TO HIS FRIENDS OVER A

BOTTLE.)

The Baron relates an account of his first travels – The astonishing

effects of a storm – Arrives at Ceylon; combats and conquers two

extraordinary opponents – Returns to Holland._

Some years before my beard announced approaching manhood, or, in other

words, when I was neither man nor boy, but between both, I expressed in

repeated conversations a strong desire of seeing the world, from which

I was discouraged by my parents, though my father had been no