Books with title Captain Salt in Oz: Oz- Volume 30

The 30th book in the Oz series, Captain Salt in Oz was written by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R Neill. In this exciting Oz adventure tale, Captain Samuel Salt (from Pirates in Oz) sails the Nonestic Ocean and discovers Ozamaland, a legendary land of flying animals, as well as the famous White City of Om, and other places. Captain Salt in Oz is a rare Oz book whose action takes place entirely outside the land of Oz and deals only indirectly with its inhabitants.This edition includes a fully linked table of contents and original cover art. It was carefully formatted for your reading pleasure by Alford Books. We hope you enjoy reading it.

Dear Boys and Girls:Another year—Another book,And this time a voyageThat Sam Salt tookIn that good old Ship,The Crescent Moon—Steering by compass,By star and moon,To discover new countriesFor OZ. Hear! Hear!He's discovered a wholeNew Hemisphere!Three cheers for Sam,And his jolly crew,And three for OZAnd three for YOU,And three for me,Though I don't need cheer'Cause the letters you writeKeep me gay ALL year!

Captain Salt in Oz CHAPTER 1 Sail Ho! Eight miles east of Pingaree lies the eight-sided island of King Ato the Eighth. While not so large as Pingaree, the Octagon Isle is nevertheless one of the tidiest and most pleasing of the sea realms that dot the great green rolling expanses of the Nonestic Ocean. And Ato himself is as pleasing as his island, enormously fat and jolly with a kind word for everyone. In his eight-sided castle, he has every modern convenience and comfort and some of which even an up-to-date country like our own cannot boast. For instance, take Roger, his Royal Read Bird. Roger, besides knowing eight languages, can read aloud for hours at a time without growing hoarse or weary. So Ato never has to strain his eyes poring over his eight hundred huge volumes of adventure and history, nor his arms holding a newspaper or court document, nor his jaw pronouncing the names of kings and countries in Ev and Oz and other curious places on the mainland west of his own island. And Roger is as handsome as he is handy, his head and bill rather like a duck's, his body shaped and colored like a parrot, but much larger, while his tail opens out into an enormous fan. This is extremely fortunate, for the Octagon Isle is semi-tropical in climate, and on warm sultry days, Roger not only reads to his Majesty, but fans him as well. All in all, Ato's life is decidedly luxurious and lazy. Sixentwo, Chief Chancellor of the realm, and Four'nfour, its treasurer, attend to all the business of governing, so that Ato and Roger have little to do but enjoy themselves. The Octagon Islanders, one hundred and eighty in number, are a sober and industrious lot, rarely giving any trouble. Once, it is true, they sailed off and deserted the King entirely, but A

King Ato the Eighth and Roger the Read Bird are at home on Octagon Island; Roger reads to his master while Ato scans the horizon, looking for Captain Samuel Salt and his ship the Crescent Moon. The Captain was supposed to return for them six months after their last adventure; but three years, eleven months, and 26 days have passed, before the Captain finally shows up.Changes have occurred in Salt's situation. He is a pirate no longer, but now the official Explorer and Discoverer Extraordinary to the Crown of Oz. And he has replaced the troublesome crew of his ship with magical mechanisms that allow him to sail it virtually on his own. He can still use a cook, though; and Ato is happy to take up his old job. Ato, Roger, and the Captain sail off for discovery and adventure.They visit an erupting volcano before reaching the "jungly" island of Patrippany. There they find an unusual situation: the local Leopard Men were holding a little boy prisoner in a cage. The Leopard people have been exterminated in a hurricane, and the boy has been fed and cared for by a matronly talking hippopotamus named Nikobo. The boy informs the new arrivals that he is Tazander Tazah, the son of the king of Ozamaland; they free him from his confinement, nickname him Tandy, and take him aboard their ship. Nikobo refuses to leave the boy, so they build a raft for her and take her along too