Life is too precious to leave it to fate. A blue bear has 27 lives. Thirteen and a half of them I will reveal in this book, so begins the very first novel by Walter Moers. It was the year 1999 when the famous Captain Bluebear presented his half-life story. It features dwarf pirates, cobold ghosts, forest spider witches, gossip waves, cave trolls, dark mountain maggots, a mountain hut, a headless giant, a giant without a head, 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, night tiffins, square sandstorms, disgusting cockroaches, the valley of discarded ideas, listening spoons, time snails, olfactiles, 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 Mare, Christmas at the Lindwurm Fortress, The Book Dragon.