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"Caesar was Patrick O'Brian's first novel. At the age of fourteen, suffering from chronic ill health, he set about creating his first fictional character. 'I did it mostly in my bedroom, and a little when I should have been doing homework,' he confessed in a note on his first dust-jacket. It tells the picaresque and enchanting, if bloodthirsty, story of Caesar - whose father was a giant panda and whose mother was a snow leopard. It tells of his life as a cub, his first exploits hunting, his first encounters with man, his capture and taming." "Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda Leopard was published in March 1930, three months after his fifteenth birthday, but the dry wit and unsentimental precision O'Brian's readers savour is already in evidence. Caesar furiously mauls two shepherds then suddenly laments, with utter sangfroid, 'I dimly felt sorry that I needlessly killed these two useless things, for though I was hungry I could not bring myself to eat these smelly men.' Caesar combines Stephen Maturin's dry wit and encyclopaedic knowledge of natural history with all the sanguinary charm of the Jungle Book. It was an instant success: translations appeared in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Japan and O'Brian was hailed as the 'boy-Thoreau'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
| ISBN-13 | 9780002259545 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0002259540 |
| Edition | 2nd Edition |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2000-06-01 |
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Dorley House Books
Hagerstown, MD, USA
8vo. First British Edition; dj w/unclipped price; 101 clean, unmarked pages.
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