Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #170717 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 125 pages

Synopsis
In the frozen Polar wastes, an explorer types with freezing fingers, the story of his extraordinary exploits, preparing to send the story to a nephew he has never seen. With his only companion the tortoise-like mutant Jackson, Uncle has gone in search of the awesome and mysterious White Lion.

Customer Reviews

A magnificent book for children and imaginative adults.
This is the astonishingly vivid and boldly inventive quest of the 'Lost Uncle' of the title writing to a young nephew in a series of wonderfully disjointed and badly-typed letters from the high Arctic. The old man, with a bizarre turtle servant (whose name escapes me) seeks a great 'White Wolf' of legend, but the real object of his quest is one of solitude and unique explorational and spiritual discovery. Peake's incredible art and brilliantly-contrived inarticulacy of the main character is perhpas the most wondrous work of the imagination in this century; largely unknown to the wider audience of children and adults who want to remember the grand excitement of childhood that the book truly deserves. EDWARD ST.BONIFACE.

Letters from a lost uncle, superb!
Everything you'd want from an accentric Englishman and more! This light-hearted series of illustrated letters from the 'lost uncle' is a joy to read as we follow the arctic journey of a one-legged Englishman (with his companion, Jackson the turtle!). Each page depicts an image of a badly typed letter or an illustration or two of the latest knot-tailed moose or actic snake that our uncle has come across, presented in a lovingly realistic manner that resembles nothing more than the original scribblings a crazy old man! This book is an absoloute treasure to all fans of mervyn peake and to children and adults alike! You must have it, you must..

very special
this is a really nice book, brilliant for huddling up in a blanket with a hot drink of seal fat- or whatever your favourite tipple may be.