Life is too precious to leave it to fate. A blue bear has 27 lives. I will reveal thirteen and a half of them in this book, so begins the very first novel by Walter Moers. It was the year 1999 when the famous Captain Bluebear presented half of his life story. It features dwarf pirates, kobold spirits, forest spider witches, gossip waves, tunnel trolls, dark mountain maggots, a mountain hut, a headless giant, a head without a giant, sleepwalking yetis, an eternal tornado, rickshaw demons, a prince from another dimension, a professor with seven brains, thinking sand, a culinary island, canal dragons, dramatic duels of lies, Nattifftoffen, square sandstorms, disgusting cockroaches, the valley of discarded ideas, listening spoons, time snails, olfactillians, a maelstrom, deadly dangers, eternal love, rescues at the very last second – and much more. This is a novel set in the legendary book realm of Zamonien. The following other Zamonien novels have been published so far: Ensel and Krete, Rumo & the Wonders in the Dark, The City of Dreaming Books, The Master of the Scarecrows, The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books, Princess Insomnia & the Nightmare-Colored Night Terror, Christmas at the Lindwurm Fortress, The Book Dragon.