Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen is one of the most famous book of tall tales. It is based on stories told by Karl Friedrich von Munchhausen, a retired army captain, who was noted for his exaggerated and fantastic accounts of his war adventures and hunting experiences. Rudolf Erich Raspe was a German librarian, writer and scientist, and he was called by his biographer John Carswell a "rogue". He is best known for his collection of tall tales: The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, originally a satirical work with political aims. Baron Munchausen's astounding feats included riding cannonballs, traveling to the Moon, and pulling himself out of a bog by his own hair. No one has journeyed to as many foreign lands as Baron von Munchausen. On the subject of politics and science he has no equal. His feats of prowess are famed the world over. Who else could leap a hedgerow with a carriage and horse on their back?