A Boy Scout Around the World

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A Boy Scout Around the World
Danish cover (2012 reprint)
AuthorPalle Huld
TranslatorEleanor Hard[1]
Cover artistAxel Mathiesen
CountryDenmark
LanguageDanish (translated to 11 languages)
GenreTravel book
Published1928
Published in English
1929
Media typePrint
Pages178 (Danish original)

A Boy Scout Around the World (

Boy Scout and later actor Palle Huld at the age of 15, following his travel around the world in spring 1928.[3][4]

His trip was sponsored by a Danish

embassies and local Boy Scouts.[3] The travel was followed by not only Danish newspapers but newspapers around the world and on his return to Copenhagen he was met by a crowd of 20,000 people.[7]

He travelled towards the west, which was the fastest but also the opposite direction of the one taken in Around the World in 80 Days. Unlike the novel, he had little problems in reaching departures.

Admiral Togo, he had to take his shoes off and thereby reveal the holes in his socks, which made him regret not taking the offer.[3][8] Nevertheless, Japan was his favorite country since he found everything pretty.[3]

After his journey he was invited to, among others, Great Britain where he met with

Scout Movement and France where he laid flowers on the grave of Jules Verne.[3][5]

Legacy

The book was translated into 11 languages and is said to have inspired Belgian cartoonist Hergé to create the Tintin comics.[3] The theory that Palle Huld should be the inspiration for Tintin goes back to 1988 where it was proposed by Tintin collector Stéphane Steeman in an article titled Les Amis d’Hergé. He found striking resemblances between the pictures of Palle Huld's memoires and Hergé's early drawings of Tintin.[2] He was backed by Philippe Goddin, who found it likely that especially Tintin's staged reception at Brussels' north station in the guise of a 15-year-old Belgian Boy Scout,[9][10] following the 1930 publication of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, was inspired by Palle Huld's reception in Copenhagen.[11] It has not been possible to verify these claims by the papers left by Hergé, and Palle Huld himself had not heard of them when interviewed in 2009 on Tintin's 80 birthday.[2]

Palle Huld died in 2010 at the age of 98 years. On what would have been his 100th birthday in 2012 the Danish version was reprinted in his honor.[5]

Language editions

  • Czech: Kolem světa za 44 dni... Praha, 1929. 172 pages
  • Danish (original): Jorden rundt i 44 Dage af Palle, Hasselbalch, 1928, 178 pages, preface by Jean Jules-Verne, cover: Axel Mathiesen.[12] Reprint: 2. August 2012, Peoples Press Jr., added preface by Troels Kløvedal, 161 pages.[3]
  • Dutch: Een reis om de wereld in 44 dagen. Translated by Mary Schlüter-Harrix. Amsterdam, ca. 1928. 170 pages
  • English (USA): A Boy Scout Round the World. Translated by Eleanor Hard. Coward-McCann Inc., New York 1929. Preface by Hawthorne Daniel. 197 pages. Cover: Axel Mathiesen. (Also published in Great Britain).
  • Finnish: Pallen Matka maailman ympäri 44 päivässä. Poorvoo (WSOY) /Borgå, 1929. 212 pages
  • French: Le tour du monde en 44 jours. Translation: Elna Cornet. Hachette, Paris, 1928. 165 pages, preface by Jean Jules-Verne.
  • German: Mit fünfzehn Jahren um die Welt in 44 Tagen, Seemann, Leipzig, 1928.
  • Spanish: La vuelta al mundo en 44 días. B. Bauza, Barcelona 1930
  • Swedish: Jorden runt på 44 dagar av Palle Åhlen & Åkerlunds Förlag, Stockholm, 1928. Translation: Signe von Vegesack. 196 pages.

Also translated to: Hungarian, Italian and Japanese.[12]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The newspaper had his grandson Jean Jules Verne write a foreword for the book.[5]
  2. ^ Some girls did apply.[6]
  3. ^ The book was published in 1873

References

  1. OCLC 7081537
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  2. ^ a b c Jensen, Jacob Wendt (22 December 2012). "Tintin an adventurer on the Danish model (Google translate)". Berlingske. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Pedersen, Jes Stein (2 August 2012). "Denmark's own Tintin wrote a great trip report (Google translate)". Politiken. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  4. ^ "The boy wanderer who inspired Tintin: Palle Huld". The National Dec 11, 2010. 11 December 2010. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
  5. ^ a b c Viemose, Lone. "Young and whimsical all around - Palle Huld Around the World in 44 Days (Google translate)". Ltteratur nu. Archived from the original on 23 September 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  6. ^ a b Liljestrand, Jens (22 August 2012). "Palle Huld: "The earth round in 44 dage" (Google translate)". Dagens Nyheter. DN.se Books. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  7. ^ "Around the World in 44 Days - Book (Google translate)". Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  8. ^ Camilla. "'Around the world in 44 days "by Palle Huld (Google translate)". Kultur for Unge. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  9. ^ Goddin 2008, p. 67; Peeters 2012, pp. 39–40.
  10. ^ Filme Cărţi 14 January 2011.
  11. ^ Perrone, Pierre (14 December 2010). "Palle Huld: Actor whose round-the-world journey was the inspiration for 'Tintin'". London: The Independent, 14 December 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-12-17. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
  12. ^ a b "The bibliographic nordiske Jules Verne (Google translate)". Retrieved 12 August 2013.

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