Lang’s collection ranges farther afield than most of his coloured fairy books, gathering tales from Persia, Native America, Australia, Brazil, Iceland and southern Africa. Readers meet the Bunyip of the Australian bush, Ball-carrier and the Bad One, the Yara of the Amazon, a cunning hare, a cowardly Geirald and the sacred milk of Koumongoé.
One of the twelve celebrated Lang fairy books; the preface carries the colonial attitudes of 1904, but the stories travel well. Download the free EPUB.