«It is my wish that my bravery, my intelligence, my virtues (and probably also my stupidities) serve to make all responsible mumintroll reflect. But perhaps he does not need it, because what characterizes every awake and restless mumintroll is the surprising, and at the same time complicated, way of finding his way through his own experiences, "writes Papa Mumin in these memoirs of his hazardous youth, They start with his flight to freedom as a child and his encounter with the ingenious Fredrikson, the inventor of the wonderful flying-submersible-off-road boat Charancamarina and who becomes his most faithful friend. A fundamental book to understand the indomitable and curious spirit of the Mumin, and to live dangerous new adventures by land, sea and air ...