How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World

Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Lang was also a prolific author of works both fiction and non-; he wrote his own fairy tales such as Prince Prigio and Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia , and wrote numerous historical texts. 'How Six Men Travelled Through The Wide World' is a fairy-tale published as a aprt of 'The Yellow Fairy Book' in 1894. It tells us a story of a man who was discharded from the military service but still had a lot of ambitions. So he decided to find himself a crew and travel across the world. And he really did...