The Adventures of Percival: A Phylogenetic Tale

by Pierre Senges, Nicolas de Crécy, Dominique Lestel

The first installment in Dis Voir's new "illustrated fairy tales for adults," The Adventures of Percival is based on the classic probability proposition that a chimpanzee randomly typing will eventually type a Shakespeare sonnet. Here, McIntosh, a gardener-mathematician (and spiritual cousin of Baron M?nchhausen), decides to take the fable seriously, and with the assistance of a typewriter and a chimpanzee called Percival, undertakes to enact...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2914563477
• ISBN13: 9782914563475
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Dis Voir Editions
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 8.3"