Le héros reçoit soudainement un message du passé et se lance dans une aventure inouïe, pour faire revivre le défunt. Qu’est-ce que c’est, la blague de quelqu’un, rallier ou vraiment inventé l’élixir de la vie éternelle? Mais la vraie vie met tout à sa place. L’aventure se transforme en un danger mortel, et l’amour est une nécessité officielle. L’histoire est vite lue, c’est vraiment intéressant. Il y a ici aussi des personnages caractéristiques, il y a un complot tordu et une fin inattendue.

This book has received three major prizes, including the Grand Prize for Children's Literature. Now published for the first time in softcover. After finding a huge tooth on the docks, English explorer Archibald Leopold Ruthmore sets out to seek the race of giants to whom the tooth belongs and discovers nine giants, the survivors of a singularly gentle and kindly race. He lives among them for ten months, and on returning home he makes a mistake that he regrets forever - he writes a book revealing their existence and location.

As a result of spending a lot of his time in a neighborhood bar where he likes the piano music, talented young musician Lou has an exciting brush with organized crime.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.