![]() Peter receives his marching orders from a strange old professor who dwells on the Troublesome Lake, so named because all the hopeless messages in bottles thrown into all the world’s seas eventually drift upon its shores. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is soon joined by an absurd but loyal knight who, for reasons too complex to go into here, has been transformed into a part-horse, part-kitten. Seamus until one night he stole a precious box of enchanted eyeballs that transported him on a magical adventure. He spent the better part of his childhood committing burglaries for a cruel master named Mr. He was raised by a family of cats and later learned to pick pockets and nick vegetables from market stalls. As a baby, he was found floating in a basket on the seashore, along with a raven that had apparently pecked his eyes out. It features a war between apes and ravens, an endless desert littered with shipwrecks, an island where all the seas in the world meet, and a blind boy whose keen senses of hearing, smell, and touch make him the greatest thief in the world. ![]() It is a world full of such possibilities as winged zebras, talking fish, curses, transfigurations, disappearing islands, and clockwork weaponry. This triumphantly weird, whimsical story takes place in a world where certain children are brave, resourceful, clever, and wise, and most adults are pitiful, silly, and easily duped into serving as slaves of a fiendish villain. ![]()
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