The bestselling author of The Art of Pilgrimage and Once and Future Myths presents a selection of mind-bending brain teasers.

Riddles by any name-enigmas, conundrum, word puzzles, teasers-have been posed since ancient times to test people's wit and stretch their imaginations. Mythologist and adventurer Phil Cousineau resurrects this lost art form in A World Treasury of Riddles. Drawing from world literature, history, myth, and folklore, Cousineau has created a one-of-a-kind book that presents riddles from ancient Greece to the Ozarks, from Leonardo da Vinci to Lewis Carroll, and more.

Previously published as Riddle Me This: A World Treasury of Word Puzzles, Folk Wisdom, and Literary Conundrums