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The Snark Puzzle Book

  • ISBN-13: 9780879755836
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: PROMETHEUS
  • By Martin Gardner
  • Price: AUD $42.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 02/05/1990
  • Format: Hardback (228.00mm X 163.00mm) 132 pages Weight: 395g
  • Categories: Puzzles & quizzes [WDK]
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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 can spend 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 the number even by crossing out one letter?
Martin Gardner (1914 - 2010), the creator of Scientific American's "Mathematical Games" column, which he wrote for more than twenty-five years, was the author of almost one hundred books, including The Annotated Night Before Christmas, The Annotated Snark, Martin Gardner's Favorite Poetic Parodies, From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley Jr., and Science: Good, Bad and Bogus. For many years he was also a contributing editor to the Skeptical Inquirer.
Puzzle fans nine years and up will delight in solving the riddles, plays on words, and pictures with hidden meanings." -- Children's House "A clever work that will intrigue young puzzle fans." -- Library Talk
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