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    612-822-4611

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Snark Puzzle Book

Snark Puzzle Book

Gardner, Martin

Hardcover

Games

ISBN10: 0879755830
ISBN13: 9780879755836
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: Feb 1 1990
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.25 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
While walking on a hillside, an unusual line occurred to Lewis Carroll: For the Snark was a Boojum, you see. Carroll later incorporated the phrase into a complete work that became the best-known nonsense poem of all time: The Hunting of the Snark.What could be more of a delight to young readers? Here in one book is Carroll's famed poem with its original illustrations by Henry Holliday, side by side with Martin Gardner's Snarkteasers - delightfully puzzling questions like these: - Can you rearrange the letters of OCEAN to spell something in which one canspend days in the ocean? But if the ocean is frisky, it's risky.- Seven is certainly an odd number of coats to be wearing. Can you make thenumber even by crossing out one letter?- See if you can change one letter of SNAIL to make a word that describes asound made by certain wild animals. Next, try changing the firsttwo letters of SHARK to one letter and make a four-letter wordthat describes a sound made by a certain tame animal.Young Snark-hunters have been sailing along with that extraordinary sea-going crew in search of a Snark since the poem was first published a century ago. And Martin Gardner's Snarkteasers are sure to make their fantastic voyage more enchanting than ever before. A delightful dividend for Snark fans is the text of another famous Carroll poem, Jabberwocky, complete with Sir John Tenniel's famous drawings.

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