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Once upon a place : paintings, drawings and notes on imaginary places / by Robert Ingpen ; [edited by Helen Chamberlin].
- Title
- Once upon a place : paintings, drawings and notes on imaginary places / by Robert Ingpen ; [edited by Helen Chamberlin].
- Author
- Ingpen, Robert R.
- Publication
- Port Melbourne : Lothian Books, 1999.
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- Additional Authors
- Chamberlin, Helen
- Description
- 48 p. : chiefly col. ill.; 29cm.
- Summary
- Imaginary journeys and places in literature are interpreted through the paintings, drawings and literary interpretation of Robert Ingpen. His art work depicts the Tabard Inn, where the famous pilgrims of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales assembled; Bong Tree Land from Edward Lear's 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat'; The town of Hamelin in Germany where the folk tale The Pied Piper originated; Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World, a plateau in the Amazon jungle where dinosaurs still roam; and Tara Hill in Ireland where the kings and scribes of Irish folklore held a great banquet. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.
- Subject
- Imaginary places
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Juvenile works
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- The Tabard Inn -- Bong Tree Land -- Hamelin Town -- The Lost World -- The Banquet Hall on Tara Hill.
- ISBN
- 0850919096
- OCLC
- 986678108
- SCSB-12720524
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library