{"product_id":"a-handbook-for-the-perfect-adventurer-paperback","title":"A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePierre Macorlan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNapoleon Jeffries\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA how-to manual for the armchair adventurer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePierre Mac Orlan's 1920 \u003ci\u003eHandbook for the Perfect Adventurer\u003c\/i\u003e was at once a paean to the adventure story, a tongue-in-cheek guidebook to the genre's real-life practitioners and a grim if unspoken coda to the disasters of World War I. \"It must be established as a law that adventure in itself does not exist,\" Mac Orlan stipulates. \"Adventure is in the mind of the one who pursues it, and no sooner is he able to touch it with his finger than it vanishes, to reappear much farther off in another form, at the limits of the imagination.\" This handbook outlines two classes of adventurer: the active adventurer (sailors, soldiers, criminals) and the passive adventurer (sedentary parasites who draw sustenance from the exploits of the former). Roaming from battlefields to pirate ships to port-town taverns, and offering advice on reading, traveling and eroticism, Mac Orlan's \u003ci\u003eHandbook\u003c\/i\u003e is ultimately a how-to manual for the imagination, and a formulation of the stark choice all would-be adventurers must face: to live or write. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGenerally known as the author of \u003ci\u003eLe Quai des brumes\u003c\/i\u003e (the basis for Marcel Carné's film of the same name), \u003cb\u003ePierre Mac Orlan\u003c\/b\u003e (1882-1970) was a prolific writer of absurdist tales, adventure novels, flagellation erotica and essays, as well as the composer of a trove of songs made famous by the likes of Juliette Gréco. A member of both the Académie Goncourt and the Collège de 'Pataphysique, Mac Orlan was admired by everyone from Raymond Queneau and Boris Vian to André Malraux and Guy Debord.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 6.96 x 4.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769866879264,"sku":"9781939663009","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/41deb0e943295f06437c3a48cbc595d7.webp?v=1780358657","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-handbook-for-the-perfect-adventurer-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}