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Illustration Features: M. Kerensky, Russian Minister of War; Why Germany's Colonies are Forfeit - better the untutored savage than the Kultured Hun (article); Making Firm Hold on Vimy's Famous Ridge; Gloating Pirates give proof of their guilt; From captive Ostend to Recaptured Messines; Small screens that guard great guns; The retreat on Paris - article by Hamilton Fyfe; First of America's fighters arrive on the Aisne; Brothers in arms from East and West in Bagdad; Bad Business Methods and High Prices - Britons who profit by U-boat Piracy (III) article; Varied work for women volunteers; The Rumanian Soldier as I know hime - article by Basil Clarke; From Kultur to Agriculture in Hainault Forest; With Albion's Oldest Ally on the Western Front; Courage and Courtesy in France; The 3rd South African Infantry - article with photo. Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. Book
Photo features: An appraisement of the action of the United States (in joining the war) - article; British Patrols in the Arras Push; Spanish and Chinese visitors view the western war; Australians near Bapaume; The Great Battle of Arras - article by Max Pemberton; Glimpses of the Glorious Battle of Arras; Hats off to the R.F.C. - article; Trekking two hundred miles to safety in East Africa; Supportive pets with soldiers; Vital Needs in Agriculture - article by Principal J.R. Ainsworth-Davis; and more. Staples disintegrated. Above-average wear. Book
Features: Why did Von Kluck Swerve? - article by Lovat Fraser; Canadians care for their equine wounded; Heroic moments in the shell-stricken West; Vignettes from the Allies' advancing lines; Forward withe the French Troops in Flanders; Masks and faces between Aisne and Oise; Keeping their Pecker up - Queer yarns the Germans believe; Photos in sunny by-paths of war's clouded highway; Western Science in an Eastern Environment - British construction in Palestine; Bridging the Yser and well away beyond Ypres; A Pit in a Beetroot field - some grim experiences of a stretcher-bearer (article by Hamilton Fyfe); Turkish activity in Syria's ancient capital; Dames of the New Order of the British Empire; Alsace celebrates the day of her deliverance; Nets to enmesh the werewolves of the sea (6 photos); Germany preparing for the War after the War; Who's who in the Great War; Peaceful contrasts with the waste of war; The Northhamptons - one-page regimental article with photo. Staples disintegrated. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
Full page illustration of the new chief of the Imperial General Staff, Lieut.-General Sir Henry Hughes Wilson. Some Lighter Aspects of a Fleet Action - by 'Bartimeus'. Preaching and Practising Prudent Economy - 5 photos. An Aeroplane Shoot on the Western Front, by 'O.Pip'. Artillery Preparation Against the Great Attack - 3 photos of a massive British rail-mounted gun and a French shell dump. Amazing photo of French observers serving as part of an anti-aircraft battery. Five photos of kite balloons. Women at work. Tanks and Trimphs from the French Front - 4 photos. From the Forge of Vulcan to the Field of Mars - two illustrations of massive guns. The U Boats and the U.S. - a confident view of the Transatlantic Transport (article). At Army Headquarters, article by Hamilton Fyfe. Arresting Attila's Advance to the Adriatic - 5 photos. New Laws for New Conditions - how the Australian Commonwealth Set the Example. Photos of decorated soldiers. Adventures of an ensign, article by 'Vedette'. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
Cover illustration of H.M. Field Pigeon Post. Illustration of a runner. "How Japan May Rescue Russia" by Lovat Fraser. Photos of Allenby's Anzacs reaching Jericho and the Jordan. Photos of Maple Leaf Heroes Who Hold the Line at Lens. Photos of Men of the Navy Active Mid Arctic Snow & Ice. Photos of Getting Ready for the Roaring of the Guns, including photo of a great dump/shell park along the French Western Front. Photos of Great Naval Ordnance that Awaits the Onset. "The Assembly Trench" by 'Sapper'. Photos along the Allied Line; Peaceful pursuits over classic battlefields. Illustration of Canadian narrow-gauge armoured engine supplying ammunition to the front. "F.O.O. in a Daylight Raid" - 20 minutes in an enemy trench. Wounded borne in barges by quiet waterways. Women's war work. Illustration of German observer post concealed behind an image of Christ on the cross. Safeguarding the Soldier - how Australia has taken thought for the future. Photos of Americans in France. Mascots and Pets share their masters' peril - photos. And more. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
Is Belgium's Deliverance Near? - events likely to follow on the capture of the Ridges - article by Lovat Fraser; Views on the road of victory over Vimy Ridge - 2 photos; Italian Boats that went by mountain ways; Under German fire in Aisne and Champagne; Canadians utilizing the 'tump line' for carrying heavy materials to the front line; Photos of enemy ingenuity i.e. a phony hollow-tree observation post; The Victory of the Flanders Ridges - how British troops won their first sight of Bruges - article; Seven 'Somersets' capture Forty-Two Huns; Rise and Fall of the U-Boat - how Germany's blockade of Britain is rendered ineffective; Prowess and pity in Mesopotamia and Palestine; Splendid work of the gunboats on the Tigris; Humour and courage of the 'jocks' - memories and episodes of the fighting on the Western Front; French air messages and hun air murders; Realistic tests of efficiency at Aldershot. Somewhat above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
Cover illustration depicts Generals the Hon. Sir Julian Byng, K.C.B., Sir Henry Rawlinson, Bart., K.C.B., and Sir Henry Horne, K.C.B. Topics: Photo of a Canadian Brigadier-General on reconnaissance in a 'whippet' tank; Should we let the Hun Withdraw? - by Lovat Fraser; Victory and British Sea-Power, by H.W. Wilson; Pursuing the Pirate & Defeating His Purpose; Photos of 'Small Details that are part of a great story'; Chaotic Ruin Wrought by the Hun in Cambrai; Onward through Destruction & Obstruction; Traps & Obstacles that Valor Overleaped; American Troops in the Truimphant Advance; Fortune's Changing Wheel on the Western Front; Great Canal Barrier (the Canal du Nord) Broken by British Troops; The Cambrai Battlefield, by Hamilton Fyfe; Women from far and near united in war work; On Home Service, Glimpses of V.A.D. Work, by Olive Dent; and more. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy copy. Book
84 pages. Tiny address label upon front cover which features a lovely colour cherubic/angelic painting. Wonderful full-page colour Magic Baking Powder ad on page 17, the reverse of which is an attractive colour Clark's Soup ad. Great colour ad for Royal Baking Powder on page 37. Nice colour Hosiers Limited and Harvey Knitting Company ads on centerfold. Rogers Bros. silverplate colour ad on page 67. Super colour Purity Flour ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
64 pages. Features: Christmas on the Plains; Hoofprints Through Time - reconstructing the pygmy horse Nannippus which roamed the Texas panhandle; Sid Forrest and a Horse Named Nickels; We Ride at Montecito - the Monticito Turf Club; Picked up in the Rodeo Arena; Young Western Artist Tenny De Witt; Diamond "S" Ranch - 20 minutes from downtown Seattle; The California Falsarienda - used for breaking and training stock horses in the past; Cow Cuttin'; Some Thoughts on Reining, by W.T. Warren; Sonny Boy (horse) Killed; Winner's Circle - photos with captions; Down the Straightaway; Horse Truck De Luxe - an all-purpose general farm truck and livestock carrier designed and built by ranchers near Medford Oregon; Leap Across Devil's Gulch, by Jesse James III; Horseman's Scrapbook; The Junior Horseman; Index for volume XVIII of this publication; and more. Ad for Lee Riders jeans features Casey Tibbs; Frank H. Lee hat ad on page 8 features Bill Linderman; Nice black and white photo ad for Stetson hats inside front cover. Hyer Boot ad on back cover. Fantastic color Ryon Roper hat ad inside back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: Arapahoe Ranch - near Thermopolis; Yesterday's Cow Roundup; Your Vacation is my Work - a story of pack-horses; Picked up in the Rodeo Arena; Fundamentals First (part II); Down the Straightaway; Can Roping Clubs Make Money?; Los Latigos De Cuero (The Rawhide Latigoes); Made it Myself; When Goldie Rode - Goldie Griffish Cameron; The Little Dogie Roping Gate; The Cowboy's Bandanna - photos of its many uses; Horseman's Scrapbook. Full-page black and white photo ad for Porter Mansfield saddles featuring "Toots" Mansfield. Full-page ad for Disney hats. Great colour ad for Fred Mueller Inc. boots inside front cover. Full-page black and white ad for "The Panhandle" hat by Bandera. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
56 pages. Features: Ha-ei-sa-ide on the Arapahoe Indian Ranch near Thermopolis, Wyoming; The Horse is a Hunter; Down the Straightaway; Fundamentals First - Part I; Vet's Corner; Picked up in the Rodeo Arena; Sixth National Appaloosa Show; Triple-A Show; Emmett Fallon - NHSRA Ex Prexy; Fred Mueller, Inc. of Larimer Street; Cow Cuttin'; Don't Booby Trap Your Horse; Horseman's Scrapbook; and more. Merritt shirt ad inside front cover. Frank H. Lee hat company on page one. Great colour ad for Ryon Roper hats inside back cover. Nice Hyer boot ad on back cover. Full-page Stetson hat ad on page 7; Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features: Navajo Tribal Fair at Window Rock, Arizona; E.B. Quigley - Painter of Horses; Bronc Breaking; Vet's Corner; Down the Straightaway; Quarter Racing at Centennial; Arab Blood in Today's Ponies; Jubilee Days in Laramie; Cow Cuttin'; That Record Pushing Sister - Little Sister W; Picked Up in the Rodeo Arena; The Stallion as a Stock Horse; It Could Happen to You; Western Paul Revere - Joe Rankin; Tips from Tyler. Nice color ad for Tem-Tex Arizona - Western shirts. Full-page Stetson ad on page 1. Blue Bell jeans ad on page 3. Circle Bar - A Ranch Quarter Horse dispersal sale ad inside back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
48 pages. Features: Basic Steps in Training a Cutting Horse; Appaloosa Heritage; Those Pikes Peak Range Riders; Training the Short-Horse; Roundup Watch; Vet's Corner; Picked up in the Rodeo Arena; Dalton Wins Grady 'Dogging Contest; Down the Straightaway; Easter Parade - Western Style; Heads or Tails - Horses Lose; Cow Cuttin'; and more. Nice color ad for Tem-Tex Lone Star Western shirts for men and women; Nice Stetson hat ad inside back cover; C.H. Hyer & Sons boot ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
48 pages. Features: Vet's Corner; Sit Tight in the Saddle - a bronc rider story; Rodeo with Triangle Bell; Saddle Trek with the two bars Seven; The Girls Rodeo Association; Down the Straightaway; Great Foundation Sires of the American Thoroughbred, VIII - *Bonnie Scotland, *Australian and *Eclipse; Cold Shoeing Broncs; Picked up in the Rodeo Arena; Week-end Waddies - The Working Kind; Cow Cuttin'; Who is He?; How to be a Bronc Rider; Range Ridin' Rhythm; Sunnyside Stampeders; and more. Nice Stetson ad on back cover. Bona Allen, Inc. ad inside back cover features saddles. San Angelo hat box ad inside back cover. Lee Jeans ad featuring Casey Tibbs on page 43. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
52 pages. Features: Montie Montana - Artist with a Rope; Riding by Reasoning, Part IV; Barn of Tomorrow; Training a Reining Horse; The Comanches - Lords of the South Plains; Picked Up in the Rodeo Arena; Down the Straightaway; Yesterday's Horse Roundup; Cow Cuttin'; Vet's Corner; Bunkhouse Bookshelf; and more. Nice color-photo ad for Plasti-Aire washable Panama hats inside front cover. Great full-page ad inside back cover for the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo. Back cover ad for C.H. Hyer & Sons boots. Lee jeans ad on page 35 features L.E. Matheres, Jr. of Mathers Bros., Mason City, Il. Levi's jeans ad atop page 36. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
72 pages. Features: Riding by Reasoning, Part III; Tops in Tailoring - well-dressed Cy Taillon, Casey Tibbs, and others, with photos; That Old Cotton Rope; Western Wear For Women; Popular Fallacies about Palominos; Just Like Dad's - a guide to pint-size western wear; Down the Straightaway; Picked up in the Rodeo Arena; Horses with Appaloosa spots; Vet's Corner; Tips on Care of Suede & Leather wear; Training the Roping Horse; Young Boys Operate Riding Stables; How to Take Better Horse Pictures; Wild Horse Man - Frank Robbins of Glenrock, Wyoming; Will Rodgers' Saddles - on dispaly in his memorial in Oklahoma; and more. Fantastic color "Friskie Babe" western shirt ad, by Tem-Tex, inside front cover. Nice Wrangler jeans ad on page 3. Fantastic full-page color ad for Fred Meuller, Inc. boots inside back cover. Ryon Panama hat ad on back cover. Lee jeans ad featuring Casey Tibbs on page 72. Levi's ad on page 43. Leddy Bros. boot ad. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
52 pages. Features: Riding by Reasoning, Part II; King (by Zantanon, by Little Joe, by Traveler) - owned by Jess Hankins; Halter Breaking Headgear; Whither the Quarter Horse?; Great Foundation Sires of the American Throroughbred VII, Lexington and *Leamington; Picked up in the Rodeo Arena; Chief Joseph of the Wallowa band and his War Horse, Ebenezer; Reining 'em in the Hackamore; Down the Straightaway; Cow Cuttin'; Vet's Corner; Week-end Waddies; Horse Kachina of the Hopis; and more. Levi's jeans ad on page 39. Fox Western Hat ad on page 4. Sexy color ad inside front cover for "Friskie Babe" blouses and halters by Tem-Tex Western Shirts; Volney Hildreth Quarter Horse Sale ad on page one. Nice ad for C.H. Hyer & Sons, Inc. Boots on back cover; Gray Trailer Company colour photo ad inside back cover features vintage designs. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Unpaginated. 12" x 9" x 0.7". Contains issues from January 1945 through December 1946, a tumultuous time for labour in the wake of World War II. Topics include: Tennessee Poll Tax Fight; A New Revision of Marxian Economics, by Raya Dunayevskaya; Barriers on the Way to Socialism, by CARP; C.C.F confusion, by C. Luff; Marxism in New Zealand by R.R. Everson; Labor Conscription - the May-Bailey bill calls for a compulsory labor draft of 18 million workers from 18 to 45 years of age; Labor and Political Action, by Harmo; Vocationalism in Ireland; Comrade Adolph Kohn; The Future of Cartels; Capitalist Justice; An admittedly Imperfect World; 60 million jobs?; Will War Delay Socialism?; Success Story; The Meaning of Social Revolution; When G.I. Joe Comes Home; The Tinplate War; The Jinni and the Master; Inquiring Student Answered; Mexico; Do away with the Working Class; Human Nature as it Really is; Parasites in Fact and Fiction; Is the Status Quo Unchangeable?; Blood and Iron - contemplating the effect of WWII; Is Socialism Inevitable?; Scientific Socialism; Now that Germany has been knocked out, What Next?; The Nature of Co-ops; A Will for Socialism; Who ar the Workers?; Edward Bellamy; The Irish Scene; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Welcome Home, Joe; Canada Goes to the Polls; A Summer Morning in Dublin; Whom the States Serves; Forced Labor in Russia; A Philosopher Squelched - San Francisco Conference; British Election Message; Willow Run - this massive plant will soon be closed after making B-24 bombers for the war; The Great Divide; Guaranteed Annual Wage; Tobin and the Teamsters; S.P.G.B. Election Message; The War's End; Socialism in Britain?; War Memorials and Poverty; Detroit seething with unrest due to postwar industrial reconversion; Russia as she is; Poverty in New Zealand; From Military to Trade Wars; Atomic Energy; Has Britain Turned Socialist?; A Job with the City; Economics of Control; The Case for Socialism; Reformers Emasculate Unions; The Communications Revolution; Guaranteed Annual Wage; Insurance and Security; So this is Peace!; Wages and Prices; A Soldier Thinks; A Program for Workers; Yours - When you want it; The General Motors Strike - the union wants 30%; An American Seaman in India; Homeward Bound; Delusions of A White Collar Worker; Veterans are workers too; Who owns large corporations?; The Truth about Russia; Socialism and Personal Ethics; The Lenin Legend; Tale of Two Continents; Kaiser-Frazer Bonus Plan; Atomic Policy; Fetish of Full Production; What? - No Money!; Growing Tensions of Capitalism; Two Worlds; India; Henry in Wonderland; Family and Education in U.S.S.R.; How to Deal with the Atomic Bomb; Recruits Wanted; Opportunity under Capitalism; United Nations and War; Catholicism in America; The Rail Strike; From Boom to Bust; T.B. and Capitalism; Stocks don't make a capitalist; Know the Enemy; Fruits of Victory; Unions in Politics; A Note on American Culture; British Labor Government; Between Two Wars; Who Owns America; Materialist Basis of Religion; Selfishness; Occupational Trends in America; Letter to a Jewish worker; OPA - The Price Sieve; Ireland Today; Serfdom in a Free Society; Questions and Answers; Paris "Peace" Conference and World War III; The Sacred Cow; Full Employment and the Liberals; Berlin Letter; The Worker - That's You!; Unity; The Atomic Age; Where are the Unions Going?; Land of Plenty; The "Flood-Like" Form; Socialism or Capitalism?; An introduction to Economics; How About a 51% Majority; What do we mean by Socialism?. Sturdily bound in maroon boards. Unmarked. Average external wear. Contents clean and gently toning with age. Lettering upon backstrip dull but legible. A sound copy. Book
Features: Two Men and a Donkey - Part I - two young artists walk from the South of France to Spain; With a Pack-Train in Jasper National Park, Canada; Dead Men's Tracks - Part II - a Western Australia Story about a lost mine; My Adventures in Mexico - Part I, by John Edwin Hogg; Obtaining an identity card in France; The Harpist of Alexandria; My First Panther - The Fur Trail - a trappers tale from the southern end of Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, Canada; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part III (Conclusion) - how a white woman succeeded, for the first time in history, in entering Lhasa, the Forbidden City of Tibet; The King of the Dedangs - how an obsure adventurer became a short-term king of certain savage tribes; Checkmate - how a murderous gang of dacoits in India met their Waterloo; a special home in Parksville, British Columbia (photos); A Night with Crocodiles - an eventful African river journey. Covers loose but present. Light pencil signature atop front cover. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. 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
Features: More Queer Fixes - A Meeting with a Meteor, In the Dark with a Mamba; A Night Attack; The Shot-Pickers; The Underground Pirates; Housekeeping Troubles in Annam; "In the Name of the Czar!" - I - A Subterranean Duel; Across Africa By Boat - I; Cupid and the Wire; Fallen Among Thieves; Remarkable "Follies"; Through the Black Canyon; Across Australia on a Bicycle; The Crop that Failed; Eight Days on an African Farm; Across Africa by Boat - II; More Queer Fixes - A Ride With Death - Sixteen Days Entombed - Lost in a Swamp; On the Roof of the Western World; Black Magic - A Weird Experience - Tambooze the Zulu; Life in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily; A Fight for Life Under Water; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger"; The Present that Went Astray; The Menace of the "Black Hand"; The Wreck of the "Dundonald"; The Experiences of a "Jackaroo"; The Story of Jasper Brown; Sporting Stories - A Brush with Elephants - The Senator's Tiger - A Ride on a Rhino; Buried Treasures in England; Six Months on a Drifting Ice-Floe; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger" - II; A Deal in Diamonds; Elk-Hunting in Sweden; How I Found My Wife; Across Africa by Boat - III; More Queer Fixes - an up and down affair - a battle with a shark; The Romance of Hermann Ochs; The "Night Riders" of Kentucky; "Captain Starlight"; More Queer Fixes - Imprisoned Under a Ship's Keel - A Motor-Boat in a Cyclone - An Uninvited Guest; A War Against a River; A Railway Stowaway; The Kauri Timber Industry; "Who Am I?"; My Ascent of Aconcagua; Running the Gauntlet; Eight Years in Babylonia - I; The Secret of the Castle; Ruined!; An Island in the Making; A Duel of Brains; Across Africa by Boat - IV; An Encounter with a Waterspout; The Ship that Disappeared; A Mountain of Gold; The "Vultures of Paris"; Eight Years in Babylonia - II; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - I; Caribou-Hunting in Newfoundland; More Queer Fixes - An Actor's Adventure - A Shifted Cargo; Through France in a Yacht; The Keeper of the Light; Flooded Out; The Bridge-Builders; Five Days in a Blizzard; A Holiday in Crete; A Short Cut; A Lion-Hunt in a Sewer; The Carriers of the Thames; How I Visited the Gouliot Caves; A Day with the South Sea Prince; More Queer Fixes - A Race Against a Leak - Two Hours in a Crevasse - The Millionaire's Messenger; The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg; The Wassmann Diamond; On the Frontier at Gibraltar;; A Romance of Two Islands - I; A Railway Smash to Order; The Ghost of the San Jose Mine; Up the Athabasca with the Fur-Traders; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - II. Average wear. Modest lean to spine. A sound copy. Book
Features: Land of Nightmare - grim events in the conflict between French Troops and the Viet Minh rebels in the jungles of Indo-China; Churinga - investigating a mysterious aboriginal 'grave'; Roles Reversed - a female climber aids her male guide to safety from a 9,000 foot peak; To the Forbidden City - Mecca, with photos; The "Devil-Leopard"; Jumbies - a tale from Trinidad; Japanese Inns - a westerner has his eyes opened; The Radio Record - one of the most fantastic cases involving the Boston police; Shore Gang - nerve-trying experiences for the author; A couple of Fools - demonstrates how easy it is to become bushed in Western Australia; What Happened at Makene - a very curious story from West Africa; and more. Above-average wear. Book
Features: Operation Sikh - An incident connected with the strange hide-and-seek war now being waged in the steamy jungles of Malaya; A Sailor on Horseback - Jack ashore takes to riding at his peril; Two Miracles - An Army officer's experience in the Western Desert during World War II; Phantom Fortune - the fascinating history of sundry vanished gold-mines in the wilds of British Columbia; Tasmania's Wild West; A Mystery of the "Bad Lands" - a cowboy's weird experience in the Badlands of Wyoming; The Figurehead - a story involving the windjammer L'Avenir; Gold Coast Ju-Ju; Box of Tricks - an isolated Army camp in Palestine is cursed with cunning Arab thieves; Personal-Column Crusoes - advice for prospective adventurers; Leturc's Island - Jacques Leturc took over an uninhabited South Sea Island and turned it into a profitable enterprise, only to encounter disaster; Desert Hitch-Hike - 1,200 miles across Northern Africa to catch a steamer; and more. Three inch opening at bottom of cover fold; Somewhat above-average wear. Small opening at top of backstrip. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Chief's Daughter - dark deeds in Africa; The Mystery Man - an unusual man who served in the Merchant Navy on the Western Ocean; Three Christmas Days - reprint of a 1905 story dealing with a series of coincidences in Australia; Big Game Farming on the border of Kenya and Tanganyika; Dead Man's Trouble - a man gets in trouble because of his (dead) double; Australia's 'Prison Trees'; My Crocodile; Matcheli Makes 'Medicine'; Crack of Doom - a former Mountie's graphic account of a touch-and-go experience in the Canadian Arctic; Desert El Dorado - Tennant's Creek, Australia and its early history; Our Trip to Robber's Roost - a roadless wilderness in Nebraska which provided haven for many outlaws in earlier years; The Wailing Waterhole - a tale from Australia's Outback; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Binding intact. Covers attached. Book
Features: Diamond Fever - an adventurous trip into little-known country on the Upper Mazeruni in British Guinana; The Coffin-Ship - reprint of a 1929 story from Malaya dealing with a murderous Chinese secret society, a steamer and more; Saharan Adventure - a memorable journey through little known areas; Buster Burton - the amazing career of a most remerkable character known to the police of 5 continents; The Perfidious Plumber - a tale from Southern Rhodesia; The Captain's Night Out - this captain was the first to get off his ship; Kabul Bazaar - life in Afghanistan - photos; Diamonds for the Picking! - on the inhospitable western coast of South Africa lies Tom Tiddler's Ground; Meat for the Pot - curare, the deadly dart-poison of the South American Indians; The Seymour "Fish Day" - Seymor, Texas locks up for a day and goes fishing!; and more. Average wear. Tears and chipping to fore-edge of front cover. Water stains to upper corner of opening pages. Overall, a decent copy. Book
