Lewis Carroll 
Hunting Of The Snark 

Lewis Carroll is often thought of, along with Edward Lear, as more about Nonsense than anything else. "Alice In Wonderland" though revealed an amazing and far larger imagination that has captivated one and all. "The Hunting of the Snark" is an equally great work in many respects. Subtitled "An Agony in Eight Fits" and written in 1874, it describes "with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature". That should whet your appetite to find out more.