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Usual library labels and stamps. Cover is plastic protected. Book is cocked, boards edgeworn. The book has been much read and the binding is cracking in places but still holding, and the contents are clean. Contains some illustrations. Ex-Library
Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mysterious Heart of Asia (part I) - Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes gives an account of his adventures during a war-time expedition, with photos; The Murder Ship - the Russian schooner Johannis and one of the most tragic narratives in the annals of the sea; The Lifted Veil (part I) - POWs in Turkey concoct a 'spook' and create an amazing deception for their captors; The Largest Camera in the World - constructed by George Lawrence of Chicago - fantastic photo-illustrated article; 'Twixt Earth and Sky - the story of a German's vengeance and the terrible ordeal that resulted for a timber-getter in the New Zealand kauri forests; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - And After (part II) - a Royal Marine captured on the Mole describes the full story of the historic landing (in part I) and curious adventures during subsequent captivity; The Bullet-Hole Cross - Guatemalan estate manager Mr. Dellplain incurs the wrath of an Indian who swears to have his life; The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part II) - Sister Janina disappeared from a peaceful little village in Michigan; Timber-Cruising in California - Terence H. Lambert describes interesting experiences among the big trees of California; Pirate Gold - The Buried Treasure of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia; After Big Game in East Africa - advice on the fitting out of expeditions, cost, and the game available; Photo of amazing bamboo scaffold structure over the great Ch'ien Men Gate, Peking as it was being rebuilt; A Two-Days' Battle with a Baboon - it escaped aboard a ship!; A Night With a Madman in India; The Sheriff's Bad Day - this story hinges on a very odd connection with this publication; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 129-192 plus 16 pages of advertisements. Features: The Grey Car Mystery - a Winnipeg murder case is solved - with photos of Sheriff Delos Blanchard, Harry Heipel, J.A. Kaesar (the victim), Inspector M.F. Anthony, and Chief George Smith; Premonition - an odd recollection by ship's engineer R.A. Jordan, R.N.R.; Photo of mystery stone coffin in the village of Turville; The Foundling - the tale of a temporarily adopted baboon in Nigeria; The Gold-Seekers - reprint of a Honduran adventure published in 1915 involving Charles Row, Dr. John F. Howard, Bert Dare, Edward J. Hoyt and W.W. Palmer; White Man's Magic - a Scots tugboat skipper uses his intelligence to restore order to a colony of Negroes in Columbia who were whipped to a frenzy by a self-appointed medicine-man; Photos of aftermath of cyclone which struck Townsville, Queensland, Australia in March, 1946; On the Razmak Road - a curious happening on the northwest frontier of India; Two Cot Cases - a Royal Navy rescue story involving the H.M.S. Keppel; Patrolling the Gulf of Carpentaria; Indian Pole-Trick; Vast Pools of Silver Salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska - article with photos; Hide and Seek - a tale from the coast of Dalmatia in the Adriatic where motor-gunboats of the Royal Navy harried German supply schooners; Nice Mars chocolate bar ad inside back cover. Colour ad for Wavy Navy tobacco on back cover. Unmarked with average wear. Modest sticker removal blemish to front cover. Binding tight. A sound vintage copy. Book
xxiv, 256-320 pages. Features: Cover illustration of St. Lucia, Windward Islands; The Death-Patrol - strange R.C.M.P. manhunt in Canada's far north after a murder on Moskeet Island; The Tobacco Farmers - three youngsters put their combined savings into an abandoned farm in North Queensland - article with photos; The Jewelled Cross - a strange story of buried treasure; Photo of New Zealand's "Bottle House"; The Stowaway; The Tale of a Shirt - what happened when an African 'bush-boy' acquired a taste for European clothing; The Miracle of the Sacred Eagles - photo-illustrated article on a daily phenomenon at a hilltop temple in Tirrukalikundram in Southern India; The Landlord's Tale - a rousing sea story told by the host of a village inn on the south coast; The Wai Wai Indians of the interior of British Guiana - article with eight photos; The Delectable Island - the isle of Re lies in the Bay of Biscay; Jungle Magic - an inexplicable performance witnessed in Malaya; Australian Treasure Trove - the wealth awaiting lucky finders in the Australian wilds; and more, plus many vintage ads. Small name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
Pages 422-504 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: Ten Months Overdue - a stirring account of the luckless voyage of the Liverpool ship Denbigh Castle, which finally reached her point nearly a year overdue; Hunting the Tapir; Imam Baksh's Escape - a murder story from India; Sanna's Eagle - the strange fate that befell a South African lammarfanger, or lamb-eating eagle, which attacked a little Boer girl and caused her death; The Death Circle - two men wander in a Canadian prairie blizzard - one finds shelter, the other dies; In Quest of Gold - gold-seekers from San Francisco on their way to the land of the Yaqui Indians are forced to turn back; Levenson's Ordeal - Albert S. Levenson, a prominent California merchant, goes missing for five days while on a mountain holiday; Life in a Land of Death (part II) - adventures among the head-hunters and other picturesque inhabitants of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea - article with great photos; The Way of the East - a curious story from Vancouver's Chinatown; The Mitimoni Man-Eaters - two white men get involved with African native witchcraft, resulting in their responsibility for fatalities caused by two man-eating lions; "Square Pegs" (part II) - This absorbing tale will teach prospective immigrants more about Canadian prairie life than stacks of guide-books and official pamphlets; Wind - a tale told at the Roscoe Hotel in Campbell River, B.C. which explained why a man dreaded wind; The Yellow Box - a missing box sets a whole West Africa colony seething; The Smallest Park in the World. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Back cover loose but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Features: The Tragedy of the "Ouida" - a pearling lugger disappears along with three members of her crew; That Night in Shanghai - Mr. and Mrs. Aitchison no longer sleep with a tree close to their window; African Nights - a young family is relocated to a home in the middle of the African wilds; A Fool Afoot in France - the amusing narrative of an economy traveller in France; Deadline Hitch-hike - the author, new to America, hitch-hiked from Arkansas to Colorado in 10 days; High Seas Murder - the new Malay fireman was a trouble-maker; Moroccan Location - a breezy account of the adventures of the people engaged in making the well-known "Black Rose" film among the Berber hillmen of Morocco - many photos; Frozen Terrow - Paddy Brennan was as tough as a youngster could be; The Rubber Hunters; Mediterranean Pirates - Recent happenings in Tangiers - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. Nice copy. Book
Features include: Five Hundred Miles to Freedom - the story of nine survivors of the Japanese capture of Rabaul; The Land Sharks - Would-be settlers in Canada fall victim to wonderful stories from plausible strangers of how to 'get rich quick'; Man-Eater - A former member of the Burma Frontier Service describes the eventful career of a tiger; Vale of the Gods - a curious blend of immemorial ritual and popular merrymaking in the Northern Punjab; The Ju-Ju Doctor - The facts of an amazing occurence on the Gold Coast; The Dragon - Author gets the scare of his live on an East Indian Island; The Sea-Dayaks of Borneo - Author finds the fromer head-hunters to be charming hosts; Section Man - A glimpse of the life of a track labourer on a Canadian railroad; The Poorhouse Tragedy - A puzzling American murder case. Exterior heavily worn with chips missing from spine and front cover partially detached. Contents good. Pencilled name upon back cover. Magazine
Features: Seeking the Golden Cliff - a prospecting expedition in the Central Australian desert; The Hyena - a veteran mining prospector and his story of African Ju-Ju; The Train was Late; A Fool Afoot in France - Part II of an Englishman's walk in France; Murder by Witchcraft - the Crown Prosecutor recounts an amazing case from British East Africa; Crackerjack - interesting stories of serving under a 'character' British sea-captain; The Sadhu's Gift - an interesting Indian tale; Chinese Makeshifts - how the Chinese adapt obsolete products into tools of use - photos; The Mad Trapper - a most extraordinary tale from the annals of the Canadian "Mounties"; How Holland Fights the Sea; The Conquered the Desert - a tribute to the camel - photos; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Backstrip missing chips. 3" x 2" chunk from bottom edge of back cover. Unmarked. Book
Features Include: The Fruit Ranch Riddle - An interesting murder investigation at the Morrisey fruit ranch near Selah, Washington, USA; Interviewing an Eruption - Filming a volcano in the Belgian Congo; The "Lion-Men" of Ussure (Part 2) - The amazing story of Tanganyikans posing as "lion-men"; Exploring the "Great Diagonal" - an ambitious attempt to open the interior of Brazil; Stowaway to Spitzbergen; "Book-Keeper Wanted" - a colourful story from Western Australia; The Blind Malik - A Quaint Tale from Waziristan; The Dingo - An amusing story from the outback; The Bull-Gang - a young Englishman finds his way into a dirty pulp mill job in Canada; Ship's Guard; Ramaswamy's Pal - from 'the queer side of things' . Average to above-average wear. Some staining and prior owner's name upon back cover. Chips from spine. Decent copy. Magazine
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: My Adventures in the World War - Part I - No war correspondent has dared more and met with such stirring adventures and experienced such exciting incidents in his quest for 'copy' as Mr. E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Riding Out a Gale on a Sawlog; The Snake in the Shaft - predicament of a prospector being hauled up from a mine; Caught by the Tide - a mistake made while duck hunting; The Amazons of Russia - Excellent photo-illustrated article on Russia's legion of woman warriors, the "Battalion of Death", which served with daring, pluck and bravery in WWI; My Experiences as a Missionary Prisoner - The Rev. E.W. Doulton and his fellow missionaries in Africa, mostly ladies, suffered at the hands of the Germans who tortured the natives to make them falsely accuse the missionaries; In the Land of the Lapps - Part I - a picturesque account of an extensive journey, illustrated with great photos; Kidnapping a Millionaire - Mr. James Samuel Slater was shut up for seven months by his chauffeur; Pomp's Visitor - amusing tale of a negro cook who meets a bear that likes fried fish; A Canadian Man-Hunt - a failed miner named Fonberg goes on a killing spree near Chipman, Alberta; Five Months in the Snow - how French peasants were isolated through a whole winter on a mountain top; Six Weeks Among the Buddhas - Part II - Juliet Bredon and her husband spent several summer weeks in China - photo-illustrated account; Across Germany to Freedom - Part II - two French soldiers, Tristan du Tartre and Georges Prieur escaped from the Hammelburg camp in Bavaria; The Heroic Band - a graphic photo-illustrated account of the gallant and heroic conduct of a French infantry band which played its regiment into action under heavy bombardment, and continued to play until half the instrumentalists were killed or wounded; Marie Jeanneret - she poisoned nine people to death; America's Great Highwayman - Joseph Hare; and more 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Pages 273-360, plus 24 pages of great ads. Features: The Black Hand - a curious story of the abortive Egyptian revolution; The Land of Model Husbands - In the Marshall Islands women are the queen of all they survey - fascinating article with many wonderful photos; "Blue Mary's" Last Run; Photo of petrified forest in Arizona; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 2; The Smallest Republic in the World - interesting photo-illustrated article on San Marino; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 4 - Exploration and Adventure in Unknown New Guinea; The Ship That Sought Adventure - The skipper of the "Zodiac" was a glutton for excitement during the anxious days of the submarine campaign during WWI; Cave-Dwellers of Today - article with wonderful photos of cave-homes around the world; Blue Bandits - Part 2 - criminals who operated near the Italian/French border murder the Abbe Rossignol of La Bessee; On Foot Through South America - Part 3 - the wilds of northern Peru; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 2 - the adventures and daring escape of airman Capt. T.W. White; A Human Tiger - a man in British Baluchistan declares war on the government; Photo of airplane caught high in a tree near Coshocton, Ohio. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 87-168 plus 32 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The Queer Side of Things - The Haunted Rest-House - an occult story from West Africa; In the Hands of the Bedouin - part I of Anton Hauptmann's story; Hitting the Iron Trial - part I of the author's train-hopping adventure from Vancouver, British Columbia to New York before he carried on to England; Update on the "Harpist of Alexandria", made famous in the July 1928 issue of this publication; The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - part II; "Lo! The Poor Indian" - An amusing account of the ways and wiles of the Red men of British Columbia - with photos; The Taxi-Cab Murder Mystery - one of the most remarkable crimes in the annals of the West Australian Police; The Elephant-Slayer - an amusing story from Kenya colony in 1905-6; A Weighty Problem - young Captain Gillon and the vessel Saragossa; Piano Tuner Kenneth J. McCombie's Adventure; In a Hole - the author fell into a hole at a New Mexico gravel pit; "Wide World" Sequels; The "Fleet of the Lost" - great article about the old windjammers residing at Alameda, on the shores of San Francisco Bay - article with nice photos; Man and his Needs; House and Garden; Stamps of the World. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: America's Murder Gangs Unmasked - A striking revelation of the forces at work behind the "murder-gangs," or organized criminal syndicates, of New York, Chicago, and other large American cities; My Menagerie - Photo-illustrated article about D. Maule and his odd experiences with his collection of animals, acquired in the wilds of Rhodesia; "Square-Pegs" - Part III of a story which should be studied by everyone considering settling in Canada - in this case a London family purchases a prairie farm; The Crowing Cock - How two Buddhist priests unmasked a cunning thief by a clever piece of 'divination'; on the outskirts of Colombo, Ceylon; Room Forty-Nine - A dangerous experience for an Englishman in Mexico; "Kruger's" Day Out - A bold, bad baboon is unfastened by mischievous troopers in South Africa; Hunting the "Moonshiners" - Interesting stories from the officers tasked with suppressing the flow of illegal liquor in the Prohibition-era United States - with photos; Photo of communal bakery in Brittany; "Tiger" - After 11 years in Malaya William Hodge saw his first live tiger; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part I - Two city-bred sisters take up homesteading in South Dakota - with photos; Nik's Homecoming - Life and death in a remote Albanian village last August is described, with photos, by Lieut-Colonel P.T. Etherton; Mart Dayton's Grizzly - It took him a year but he finally took revenge on the bear that killed his young partner in the remote MacGregor country in British Columbia; The Bridge-Builders - Two men knowing nothing of the business take on a contract to build a bridge across an obscure river in the wilds of Africa; Fire-Walkers of Mauritius - A Photo-illustrated account of an extraordinary ceremony; In Quest of Gold - Part II - Two young Americans in search of buried treasure are forced to turn around by the dreaded Yaqui Indians. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Stories: The Female of the Species; A Weighty Problem; The Town of Ghosts; The Judge's Joke; On Patrol; The Djimat; Adventure Ahoy; The Doctor's Jacket; A New Zealand Man-Hunt; Rough Luck; The Phantom Gunman; The Taxi-Cab Murder Mystery. Above-average but not excessive wear. Book
Stories: Kultis Jim's Totem Pole (A droll story from Alaska, showing how a 'simple' Indian got the better of a bunch of astute business men and incidentally landed them in a most embarassing situation); My Adventures on Lundy; Trial by Ordeal; The Far East's Wild West; Murder Valley; Tough!; Illicit Ivory; The Shadow; Flood on the Alto Paraguay; The Soda-Siphon Bulb; The Timber Thieves; The Hunting of Wild Toby; Nigerian Ju-Ju; Queensland's First Hunt-Club. Average wear. Book
Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Front cover loose but present. Backstrip missing. Faint signature atop front cover. Binding intact. Book
Stories: Murder Island; Land of still waters; an accessory after the fact; on the north-west frontier; the professor; Caribbean ordeal; the lion-man; twenty pigs; fighting the locust; the wide world in captivity; the dingo hunter. Front cover missing. Well-worn. Book
Features: Exploring the Green Hell - describes journeys to Brazil's Matto Grosso; Ning Wo Intervenes - reprint of a 1928 story involving a Chinese Sherlock Holmes; The Mystery of 'Lost Creek Mine' - sequel of a 1941 story of a lost gold mine in the wilds of British Columbia; The 'Man-Leopards of Malimbu - a Nigerian story; Among the Hairy Ainu of Japan; The Mosquito Net - another elephant hunting tale by Capt. B.B. Celliers; The Train Robbers - Indian Railway Thieves; The Accursed Island - landing on an uninhabited atoll to repair his schooner, the author made an amazing discovery; The Hirazawa Case - a strange mass murder/poisoning case in Japan; and more. Covers loose but present. Tape along backstrip. 2"x2" chunk missing from back cover. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book
Features: The Voice of Afwi - the Toma tribe of Lower Guinea in Africa by Hugo Charteris (continued in a later issue); The Sabotaged Derelict - a tale from a Coast Guard officer on America's eastern seaboard; Little People of the Snows - Penguins (nice photos); Only Two Came Home - Fierce shark attacks documented; The Navy to the Rescue - an event which earned the author, Admiral Lord Mountevans, the only gold medal ever awarded by Lloyds; I was kidnapped by a runaway killer - Walter Boyd James in Penticton , British Columbia - the murder of Constable Geoffrye Ashton aboard the lake steamer S.S. Okanagan; The Curse of Kaimakam - troubles for the El Habr Arabs; Descent from Danger - Part II of "I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone" by Dennis Roberts; Treasure Islands of the Atlantic - where pirates buried their booty; The Manatee; and more. Backstrip open at places else clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
Stories: murder will out; hill-billies of the Ozarks; the eaglet; parachute Wednesday; Patagonian journey; The interloper; The Arab fortune teller; heads and tales; on patrol; bushcraft; the rise of Slippery Wiley; Almanac Alibi. Front cover detached but present. Above-average wear. Book
Features: The Chief's Daughter - a strange story related by a veteran Nigerian hunter - involves a ritual murder; The Mystery Man - an unusual story from a Merchant Navy Officer; Three Christmas Days - Reprint of a 1905 story related by a veteran Australian gold miner; Big Game Farming on the borders of Kenya and Tanganyika; Dead Man's Double - A very strange sea story; Australia's Prison Trees; Matcheli Makes 'Medicine'; Crack of Doom - a former Mountie's graphic account of a touch-and-go experience in the wilds of the Canadian Arctic (H. Stallworthy); Desert El Dorado - The Early History of Tennant's Creek in Australia; Our trip to Robbers Roost, a roadless wilderness in Nebraska; The Wailing Waterhole - the uncanny history of a Queensland Pool; and more. Chips from backstrip. Faint name atop front cover else unmarked. Back cover partially loose. Quality copy. Book
Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
91 pages plus many pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: A detailed narrative of General Korniloff's 300 mile Escape from the Austrians back to the Russian lines; Some Exciting Experiences with Rhinos, by J.A. Jordan - with photos; Hindengerg's Death Trap - a terrible tragedy befalls the Russian armies amid the Masurian Lakes; The Pygmy People of Mount Marviveles in the Phillipines - the Negritos, or "little Negroes" - with photos; The Vengeance of Eugene Ristori - The Five-Year Story of a Corsican Murder Vendetta which ends in Panama; The House of the Chained Bear - a night of terror in the wilds of Transcaucasia; On the Borders of Tibit - Part 2, by Reginald Farrer, with nice photos; The Three Scarlet Feathers - the terrible experience of a white man who got into the black books of Voodoo people in Hayti (Haiti); A Flying Man in South Africa - Part 3 of John G. Barron's adventures - illustrated; My Experiences as a "Wild Girl" - Carl L. Thompson of Seattle and his strange job; Round Labrador and Hudson Bay - Part 4 - E.W. Hawkes' adventures, with great Eskimo photos; The Snake-Charmer's Vengeance - Alexander Feely recounts a circus tale; Our Catch - an extract from the diary of a Lieutenant of Alpine Chasseurs which describes how six Alpine Chasseurs bluffed three hundred Huns, with eight officers, into surrendering without a fight. Photo of Shrovetide Football at Ashbourne in Derbyshire. Harris-Goar Jewelry ad on back cover. Nice ad for Baseball Magazine Co. Great full-page ad for Canada Steamship Lines. Above-average external wear. Binding intact. Bit of writing atop front cover. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 169-252 plus 28 pages of ads. Features: Chink-Running - an account of the illegal smuggling of Chinese over the U.S. border from Canada via the Detroit River; Slippery Wiley's Luck - Mr. Wiley returns to the scene of his prior crime to con money from more victims in Australia; The Mysterious M'Zab - A description of a little-known country in the heart of the Sahara where, although the French are the nominal rulers, the people actually obey the edicts of a secret Government of their own - great photos; "Ning We Pulls the Strings" - A story of Colonel Mackenzie's inimitable Chinese detective; Our Gatta - a most amusing tale of a native regatta from West Africa; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record, by John H.E. Nolan (Part 3 of 3) - with several photos; Murder Paul Jaworski is permitted to read advance copy of a magazine serial before being executed for his crime; Feather's Folly - a stirring sea yarn from Newfoundland; Seeing America on Thirteen Dollars - Carl N. Taylor describes his four year adventure which began when he was sixteen; At the Eleventh Hour - Racing A Dying Prospector in the Belgian Congo to British Territory for the sake of his life insurance policy; The Human Tiger - a man planning murder in Perth Australia sees his plan go wrong; A Break in Routine - a true story from a Commissioner of Police in Uganda. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Small tape reinforcements to each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this engaging vintage issue. Book
Features: The Vengeance Trial - An unusual murder in Ecuador; Our New Guinea Cruise - the natives of New Guinea have acquired a certain level of sophistication, with photos; Northland Mountaineering - ascending some difficult peaks in Norway, with nice photos; Carlson's Mermaid - a fantastic story from the Niger delta; The Hidden Gold Murders; Ghulam Haidar - Opium Peddler; Two Bad Men - tracking down two killers in America's wild North-West; A Wierd Quest - seances are held to help prospectors find gold in the U.S.; Behind the Door - a curious story from a Chief Officer in the Merchant Navy; Bush Nightmare - tough luck for a wanderer in the wilds of Queensland; Forewarned - a puzzling affair in Nigeria; and more. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Book