The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Some years before my beard announced approaching manhood, or, in other words, when I was neither man nor boy, but between both, I expressed in repeated conversations a strong de...

_In which the Baron proves himself a good shot--He loses his horse, and finds a wolf--Makes him draw his sledge--Promises to entertain his company with a relation of such facts...

_An encounter between the Baron's nose and a door-post, with its wonderful effects--Fifty brace of ducks and other fowl destroyed by one shot--Flogs a fox out of his skin--Leads...

_Reflections on Saint Hubert's stag--Shoots a stag with cherry-stones; the wonderful effects of it--Kills a bear by extraordinary dexterity; his danger pathetically described--A...

_The effects of great activity and presence of mind--A favourite hound described, which pups while pursuing a hare; the hare also litters while pursued by the hound--Presented w...

_The Baron is made a prisoner of war, and sold for a slave--Keeps the Sultan's bees, which are attacked by two bears--Loses one of his bees; a silver hatchet, which he throws at...

_The Baron relates his adventures on a voyage to North America, which are well worth the reader's attention--Pranks of a whale--A sea-gull saves a sailor's life--The Baron's hea...

I was once in great danger of being lost in a most singular manner in the Mediterranean: I was bathing in that pleasant sea near Marseilles one summer's afternoon, when I discov...

_Adventures in Turkey, and upon the river Nile--Sees a balloon over Constantinople; shoots at, and brings it down; finds a French experimental philosopher suspended from it--Goe...

_Pays a visit during the siege of Gibraltar to his old friend General Elliot--Sinks a Spanish man-of-war--Wakes an old woman on the African coast--Destroys all the enemy's canno...

_An interesting account of the Baron's ancestors--A quarrel relative to the spot where Noah built his ark--The history of the sling, and its properties--A favourite poet introdu...

I made a balloon of such extensive dimensions, that an account of the silk it contained would exceed all credibility; every mercer's shop and weaver's stock in London, Westminst...

_The Baron sails with Captain Phipps, attacks two large bears, and has a very narrow escape--Gains the confidence of these animals, and then destroys thousands of them; loads th...

_Our Baron excels Baron Tott beyond all comparison, yet fails in part of his attempt--Gets into disgrace with the Grand Seignior, who orders his head to be cut off--Escapes, and...

_A further account of the journey from Harwich to Helvoetsluys-- Description of a number of marine objects never mentioned by any traveller before--Rocks seen in this passage eq...

_This is a very short chapter, but contains a fact for which the Baron's memory ought to be dear to every Englishman, especially those who may hereafter have the misfortune of b...

_Voyage eastward--The Baron introduces a friend who never deceived him: wins a hundred guineas by pinning his faith upon that friend's nose--Game started at sea--Some other circ...

_A second visit (but an accidental one) to the moon--The ship driven by a whirlwind a thousand leagues above the surface of the water, where a new atmosphere meets them and carr...

_The Baron crosses the Thames without the assistance of a bridge, ship, boat, balloon, or even his own will: rouses himself after a long nap, and destroys a monster who lived up...

_The Baron slips through the world: after paying a visit to Mount Etna he finds himself in the South Sea; visits Vulcan in his passage; gets on board a Dutchman; arrives at an i...

_The Baron insists on the veracity of his former Memoirs--Forms a design of making discoveries in the interior parts of Africa--His discourse with Hilaro Frosticos about it--His...

Everything being concluded, and having received my instructions for the voyage, I was conducted by the illustrious Hilaro Frosticos, the Lady Fragrantia, and a prodigious crowd...

_The Baron proceeds on his voyage--Convoys a squadron to Gibraltar --Declines the acceptance of the island of Candia--His chariot damaged by Pompey's Pillar and Cleopatra's Need...

_The Baron secures his chariot, &c., at the Cape and takes his passage for England in a homeward-bound Indiaman--Wrecked upon an island of ice, near the coast of Guinea--Escapes...

_Count Gosamer thrown by Sphinx into the snow on the top of Teneriffe--Gog and Magog conduct Sphinx for the rest of the voyage--The Baron arrives at the Cape, and unites his for...

_A feast on live bulls and kava--The inhabitants admire the European adventurers--The Emperor comes to meet the Baron, and pays him great compliments--The inhabitants of the cen...

_A proclamation by the Baron--Excessive curiosity of the people to know what fudge was--The people in a general ferment about it--They break open all the granaries in the empire...

_The Baron sets all the people of the empire to work to build a bridge from their country to Great Britain--His contrivance to render the arch secure--Orders an inscription to b...

_The Baron's retinue is opposed in a heroic style by Don Quixote, who in his turn is attacked by Gog and Magog--Lord Whittington, with the Lord Mayor's show, comes to the assist...

_The Baron arrives in England--the Colossus of Rhodes comes to congratulate him--Great rejoicings on the Baron's return, and a tremendous concert--The Baron's discourse with Fra...

_A litigated contention between Don Quixote, Gog, Magog, &c.--A grand court assembled upon it--The appearance of the company--The matrons, judges, &c.--The method of writing, an...

_The Baron harangues the company, and they continue the pursuit--The Baron, wandering from his retinue, is taken by the savages, scalped, and tied to a stake to be roasted; but...

_The Baron goes to Petersburgh, and converses with the Empress-- Persuades the Russians and Turks to cease cutting one another's throats, and in concert cut a canal across the I...

_The Baron makes a speech to the National Assembly, and drives out all the members--Routs the fishwomen and the National Guards--Pursues the whole rout into a Church, where he d...