Author : MARKOWSKA Wanda; MILSKA Anna
Title: Tales from distant seas and oceans
- Place of publication: Gdańsk
- Year of publication: 1969
- Publisher : Wydawnictwo Morskie
- Number of pages: 193, [2].
- Illustrations, maps: illustrations in the text including full-page illustrations
- Size: 30 cm
- Binding: hard cardboard, decorative coverings
- Condition: slight rubbing of the spine
- ISBN: ---
Description:
1st edition Illustrated by Gizela Bakhtin-Karlovskaya.
CONTENTS:
1. About the brave Gunnar, the Sea Girl and the magic kingfishers - a Scandinavian tale.
2.About the beautiful Ina, the brave Tuan and the Island of Nowhere-Don't Know - a tale from the South Seas.
3. about Olaf and his magic pipe - a fairy tale from the northern seas
4. the white shark - a tale from the northern fjords
5. about the righteous ruler of the sea and the evil shah - a Persian tale
6. the Ranira of the Salt Lake - a tale from Madagascar
7. about the old shepherd Lamu and his faithful dog, the evil lord and the good spirit of the sea - an Inuit tale
8. the frigate Oronga from the island of the giants Ahu - a tale from Easter Island
9. about the brave sailors, the coral atoll, the Great Dolphin of Palang and the water from the Kane spring - a tale from the southern islands
10. about Maranda, who had a cradle made of shells - a tale from the Canary Islands
11. how Maui - the son of sunshine - fished the islands out of the sea - a Polynesian tale
12. the Shah of Kobad and the talking parrot - a Persian tale
13. about Jamil and the padishah, the evil vizier, the beautiful Peri-enchantress and roses that never wilt - an eastern tale
14. how the brave Waj defeated the whale over the whales - a North Siberian tale
15. about a young carpenter Kub, his two lazy brothers and a ship that flew in the air and floated on water - a Russian tale
16. about a water hen that laid golden eggs - a northern fairy tale
17) How a poor fisherman became the sultan's vizier - an eastern tale
18) About Kari, a poor orphan, who became a queen - a Norwegian fairy tale
19. about the Island of Happiness - northern fairy tale
