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Pages 338-420 + 16 pages of nice ads, including one page for Leonard Wood Memorial, an organization combatting leprosy. Features: The Sealed River - the terrible events which befell a young British police officer at the hands of an old Boer ex-commandant; The Hold-Up of No. 13 - remarkable robbery of the Southern Pacific Railway Company in Oregon, October 11, 1923 - article with photos of Hugh De Autremont, Ray Charles De Autremont and Roy A.A. De Autremont; Saving a President - the author spirited President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico from Mexico City to the coast when he adbicated in 1911; Ning Wo Intervenes - a Chinese Sherlock Holmes with methods all his own; Diver v. Devil-Fish - a Puget Sound battle in 1927; Life in a Land of Death - Part 1 - adventures among Papuan head-hunters - article with amazing photos; A Matter of Slave-Raiding - the white man goes up against a ruffianly border chieftain along the Abyssinian frontier of the Sudan; "Square-Pegs" - part 1 - the misadventures of a middle-class London family which uprooted itself and relocated to a Canadian prairie farm; Saved by an Iceberg - two Newfoundland fisherman were adrift for 11 days; The Lost Tusker - occult powers of the primitive Kurramba tribesmen of the Malabar forests; O'Hara to the Rescue - incident on board a steamer; Tom Threepersons - article with photo about a 'wild west' gunman; On Tour with a Puppet-Show - part 2 - odd experiences through the West of England; Tobacco Redeemer (smoking cessation) ad inside back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Red Witch of Modjaji - A weird story related by a member of the old South African Constabulary on the edge of the Great Bushveld; In Search of Sea-Monsters - Part I - In 1921 F.A. Mitchell-Hedges set out on a two-year trip to the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea to discover the world's largest big-game fish - photo-illustrated article; The Convict Who Captured a Prison - Murderer Tom Slaughter was able to escape from the Arkansas State Penitentiary's "death cell" and escape from the prison, leaving all other prisoners and guards lock up! - article with photos; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part III (conclusion) - Winifred S. Blackman spent three winters with local people in Upper Egypt - article with photos; Photo of man in India who has committed to roll his body for two thousand miles from Rameswara to Benares! Trade-Wind Cay - Three men find themselves stranded on an uninhabited islet, once the lair of pirates, in the Spanish Main; Our Andean Adventures - Harriett Chalmers Adams travelled into the region across the Peruvian Andes and the mysterious "inside" country beyond, which she was the first white woman to penetrate - article with photos; The Great Dog Derby of La Pas - Photo-illustrated account of the annual race for men and dog-teams over two hundred miles of snow-covered wilderness at La Pas, Manitoba; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part IV - The story of a British officer's journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives; The Bell of Solavetski - Ralph Durand spent twenty pounds to travel to faraway Archangel and the ice-covered Arctic wastes of Nova Zembla - article with photos; "Grip" and I - Part IV - A bull-terrier spared from death rewards his new owner, Count Nils Cronstedt, by saving him multiple times during his time as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; Across the Atlantic in "Shamrock" - Sir Thomas Lipton's racing yacht travels an adventurous 3,000 miles home to Britain for a refit (with photos; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part IV - Beatrice Grimshaw explored up the Sepik River of New Guinea where she dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; The Grey Devils - A grim story of hungry wolves in the Canadian North-West; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A Baptism of Fire - A young British Columbia Forest Service Ranger helps to save 100 people trapped in a logging camp from forest fire; Through Arctic Seas - Part II - Wonderful photos accompany this continuation of the cruise of the Hudson Bay Company steamer Baychimo to the Western Arctic to study the Eskimos and wild life; "Kruger's Millions" - ;A diagram is found which may lead to an enormous quantity of gold hidden by President Kruger after the Boer War; How We Fought the Famine - In East Africa Captain Anthony Parsons needed meat to trade to the Angonis for flour for his "boys"; Through Spain in Disguise - Part VI - Count and Countess Malmignati sing and dance their way across Spain disguised as Arab beggars; Photo of river gardens in Siam; The Adventures of a "Sand-Hog" - Photos of brutal subterranean conditions accompany this story of the men who dig tunnels and tubes beneath the Hudson River, between New York and Jersey City; The Thief Who Lost His "Luck" - A Chinese burglar lucks out; "Crawling Cavern" - Close call for Mark Howard in the spring of 1907 while on outpost duty on the coast of Mindanao; Across Central Africa from East to West - Part I - Major Frederick G. Jackson describes his 6,000 mile trans-African trek - with nice photos; The "Phantom Bandits" - In 1923 Joe Tanko and Floyd Hall escaped from San Quentin Prison and terrorized the countryside before they were finally subdued - includes facsimile of their wanted poster; The Mystery Man of Arnhem's Land - a man goes wrong so flees to the wilds, intent on earning enough to make restitution, but ends up in a lonely grave on the Australian coast; The Hakim - A doctor in Kenya includes fortune-telling in his treatment of disease. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Bits of peripheral nibbling, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Lost in the Pacific - John Edwin Hogg attempted to take a small boat to Panama from some islands 90 miles off the coast, but encountered treacherous seas; On Niagara's Brink - Orrin E. Dunlap, the unofficial historian of Niagara Falls, describes the area's most thrilling adventure, that of a barge and two men, Lofberg and Harris, who drifted to the verge of Horseshoe Falls - article with photos; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part I - Oxford Anthropology student Winifred S. Blackman relates her experiences in three winters of living with the people of Upper Egypt - article with photos; Captain Doudera's Bet - The amazing photo-illustrated story of Captain Frank Doudera, of Brooklyn, New York, and his quest to obtain a timber wolf pelt within six weeks; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part II - Beatrice Grimshaw travelled up the Sepik River of New Guinea, where she dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; Chippin' Paint - An amusing sea story; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part II - A British officer's remarkable journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives as one of themselves; The Treasure of Tristan Da Cunha - Photo-illustrated article about a hoard of gold and jewels said to have been hidden here by pirates in 1810; Photo of a literal river full of logs in British Columbia; The Three Angleteers - Part IV - Three bored Englishmen travel to Europe for trouble and adventure; In the British Guiana Jungle - A vividly-written photo-illustrated account of an eventful boat-journey into the interior of British Guiana with a motion picture camera, culminating with a visit to the mighty Kaietuerk Falls, the greatest cataract in the world, five times higher than Niagara; The Secret of the Wilds - photos of wild animals which resemble those of prehistoric times; "Grip" and I - Part II - A bull-terrier spared from death by its new owner Count Nils Cronstedt returns the favour by saving him multiple times during his stay in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendent in Northern Nigeria; One Night - the story of a hunt in the darkness and a panther who stood his ground; and more. 88 pages plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Story of John Jewitt - A young Englishman is taken as a slave by Maquinna, chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island; The Children of the Wilderness - Part I - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated journey in little-known Mongolia; Winning a Wife - An incident involving an Englishman in Tirah; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-Out - Part I - The conclusion of Frederick C. Glass's adventures on a little-known Brazilian river; The Sea Devil - An extraordinary six-hour battle with a huge West Indian manta, or ray; Where the gold went - Charles Siringo describes the pursuit of two men who had robbed the famous Treadwell mine in Alaska; The Cannibal Islands - Part I - Clifford W. Collinson has spent several years in the Solomon Islands - article with photos; Three Asses in the Pyrenees (conclusion) - a couple with a donkey cart set out to explore the area without any modern luxuries; My Motor-Boat - what happend when a man tried to run a second-hand boat he purchased; How We Killed the "Rat" - a scheme to kill an intruding rat goes sadly wrong; A Woman in Unknown Albania (conclusion) - Rose Wilder Lane explores the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish; A Lonely Job - a young ship's officer acts as caretaker of a vessel wrecked off the Australian coast; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Car No. 13 - A routine train trip enmeshes F. A. Malcomson aboard Car No. 13 of the "Californian Limited" at Los Angeles; My Mad Mate - The reason why young Harry Neild's hair was white; Among the Amazons - A wonderfully photo-illustrated account of the Wai-woi, a little-known tribe of Indians; My Buffalo - How a hunter's first shoot was nearly his last in the Himalayan foothills northeast of Ghaggar; A "New Chum" in New Zealand - Part I - Jottings from a recently emigrated young farmer who took the plunge and began farming ; The Mozampur Dacoity - A curious robbery in India; Behind the Himalayas - Part II of II - A wonderfully photo-illustrated account of an exploration to the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Cannon Idol of Batavia in the Dutch East Indies; A Duck-Shooting Adventure - Using ice-scooters to hunt ducks on the Great South Bay of Long Island; The Black Hand - A recent adventure in Kuling, China, which is currently experiencing a wave of serious brazen crime; Two Girls in a Typhoon - The trying experience of two young ladies aboard a tramp steamer from Hong Kong to British North Borneo; A Matter of Promotion - The story of a long, hard chase , in the depths of winter, of two half-breed outlaws by a constable of the Royal North-West Mounted Police at Saddle Lake, Saskatchewan; Through the Inner Deserts of Arabia - Part I - The exciting adventures of the Countess Malmignati, the first European woman to penetrate the little-known Inner Deserts of Arabia - this part describing her time in Damascus before the journey - with photos; Letters; The Phantom Tiger - Jean M.F. Dubois, a former planter in Lokop Province, Sumatra, explains what happened when he pursued a tiger which had caused a local reign of terror - with photo. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Average wear and soiling to back cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Pages 265-352 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Hunting the Giant Crocodiles of the Bayano, Central America - with amazing photos; The Radio Man's Adventure - terrible experience for Ross Knight in the High Sierras of California; The Golden River - The Kawarau River in New Zealand is to be dammed so its bed may be mined for gold - photo-illustrated article; The Missing Necklace - a tale from the Malay Peninsula; The Lady and the Python - photo-illustrated story from Port Elizabeth; My Novel Holiday - Mercer Sherwood Maloney works as a 'messman' on a cargo-steamer in order to visit Europe; My Search for the King's Treasure, by Lieut. Colonel K.M. Foss, Late Indian Army; The Case for the Sea-Serpent - the log of the "St. Francois Xavier" reports a sighting, according to a 1903 news clipping from the 'Vancouver Province'; Where Cannibals Roam - part 3 - wonderfully photo-illustrated article from Papua; The Looker-on - how card sharks on an Atlantic liner were unmasked; Saved by "The Wide World Magazine" - how reader Hubert H. Arthur benefitted from a 1922 article on a Japanese science called 'Katsu'; Johnny Mackay's Last Hand - a half-breed card player in Canada's northland; Man Versus Lion - South African game ranger is forced to kill lion with sheath knife; Remains of man found in hollow tree - news clipping from the World Herald of Omaha, NE; Two Years in Borneo - part 2 - a strange story of love potion; Some Adventures with Bears - bear stories from Alberta and British Columbia; One-page General Electric ad features 'electric logger' in the Washington woods; One-page Lionel Strongfort ad entitled "When Marriage is Fatal". Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The "Goldenburg Coward" - True tale from the headwaters of Spruce River, British Columbia during the gold stampede of summer 1900; Hunting the Long-Haired Chinese Tiger - Lieut.-Commander the Hon. J.M. Kenworthy describes an eventful hunt for this tiger which is larger and more ferocious than the Indian variety; Through Arctic Seas - Part I - The eventful cruise of the Hudson Bay Company's steamer Baychimo to the Western Arctic to study the Eskimos and wild life - with photos; Through Spain in Disguise - Part V - The Count and Countess Malmignati, disguised as Arab beggars, sing and dance for a living; Photo of the smallest teapot in the world, fashioned by Mr. T.A. Vickery, of Main Street, Bantry; Rebecca's Vengeance - An odd story of "Black Man's Magic" in the West Indies from 1903; Looking for Trouble - Alexander MacNab experiences disaster while engaged in a Mexican revolution under General Carranza; ; A Near Thing - A British Intelligence agent arouses suspicion while in German territory; Painting Wild Indians - A. Hyatt Verrill describes his experiences after spending years painting the little-known Indians of Central and South America; Cowboys and Raiders - Jesse C. Carson relates his association with Pancho Villa as a rebel 'general'; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - Grace Sprange describes two years of disappointment, disillusionment, and disaster attempting to grow oranges - with photos; The Last of the Little "Shanghai" - brief update and photo on this trusty craft which had previously sailed from Shanghai to Copenhagen; Trapped in a Flooded Tunnel - The terrible experience which befell a diver near the Hartebeestpoort Irrigation Dam, near Pretoria, South Africa; "For the Hounour of the Mounted Police of Canada" - Herbert Patrick Lee relates an experience from when he was a recruit at Regina. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate external wear. Covers beginning to separate from textblock. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Paying the Price - How Nature in Canada's far north has extracted a toll on trappers - with photos; Behind the Himalayas - Part I - Photo-illustrated account of exploration of the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Rubber-Smugglers of Malaya - An amusing story; The Outlaw Elephant - Rogue elephant "George" ravaged the Travancore district of India from 1920 to 1925, killing many and doing immense damage - article with photos; My Desert Dash to Damascus - A decidedly exciting journey across the Syrian Desert amidst hostile devil worshippers and Bedouin - with interesting photos; "Blue-Water Andy" - Did he spot the wreck of an ancient Spanish treasure-galleon on some nameless island? ; Across Africa With a Camera - M.A. Wetherell's photo-illustrated account of his trans-African journey; The Disappearing Lion - An amusing tale from Australia; The Kahuna's Power - A strange little story of native "magic" in Hawaii; A Pearler in the Philippines - F.D. Burdett describes his exciting experiences on pearling trips among the Philippine Islands; The Haunted Camp - The disappearance of a white man in Africa, and the startling events that followed; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part IV - Jack McLaren spent eight years on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula. 84 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Hunting of Gonzales - An adventure of Senor Ramon Torres, a Captain of Rurales - the famous mounted police of Mexico; Adrift on an Ice-Floe - Lieut. Commander Fitzhugh Green provides a photo-illustrated account of the amazing fashion in which a primitive Eskimo extricated himself from a predicament which would assuredly spelt death for a white man; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part II - Winifred S. Blackman's photo-illustrated account of the three winters she spent with the local people of Upper Egypt; Fraser's Price - The tale of an angered railroad engineer; The Three Angleteers - Part V (conclusion) of the trouble and adventures of three English wanderers in Constantinople and Athens; "Remember the Mortons" - A stirring story of an episode in the Matabele rebellion of 1895; Salvage Extraordinary - An Indian planter's account of an odd affair on the Brahmaputra River in Assam, including photo of five elephants pushing a stranded steamer; The Head-Hunters of Sepik - Part III - Beatrice Grimshaw explored the Sepik River of New Guinea and dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; Where Everyone is Wealthy - The Osage Indians of Oklahoma come up with the strangest ways to divest themselves of their wealth earned from local oil - article with photos; "Grip" and I - Part III - Count Nils Cronstedt spares a condemned bull-terrier which rewards him by saving him multiple times while he served in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; "Old White Face" - Allen Borders of Montana relates a terrifying cougar experience; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part III - The story of a British officer's remarkable journey - disguised as an Oriental - across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives; "Captain Jed" - a tale of the whalers of New Bedford, MA, involving the "Cap'n Jed" and the "Wanderer" - very few men have ever fought a 'right' whale single-handed and lived to tell the tale; Python and Lion in Nyassaland - after visiting a witch-doctor for poisoning the author is attacked first by a great python, then a lion!; Photo of a Manchurian man 7 feet and 3 inches tall; Photo of a veritable forest of masts at Lowestoft, the Suffolk fishing port, during the height of herring season; and more. 88 pages plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Hypnotist Detective - Dr. Leopold Thoma of Vienna is a new kind of detective; Knocking at the Cannibals Door - a very dramatic story of the "white man's burden" near the Kunimaipa River in British New Guinea; My Misadventures in Finistere - an amusing account of a holiday sojourn on a little island off the northern coast of Brittany; Through the East by Air - Part III - The adventures of Richard and Sydney Carline who were commissioned by the National War Museum to paint scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia; The Tiger Calls - an account of what befell two Indian teaplanters; Our Little Outing - An exciting story from a P. Burns and Co. beef camp southeast of Olds, Alberta; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part III - the remarkable story of a man who conducted the most mysterious one-man robberies to ever occur in America; The Ship That Disappeared - The perilous adventure of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine steamer "Canadian Importer"; The "Human Leopards" - A Terrible secret society in Sierra Leone, West Africa; The Blue Spot Theory - a funny story about checking for birthmarks on Burmese babies; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part I - Oscar Olsson's aim was to shoot big game with a film camera; My Fishing Trip - a British Officer's touch and go experience in Sopor, a village in Kashmir; and more. 86 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A high-quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Pages 303-396 plus 28 pages of ads, many wonderfully illustrated. Numerous black and white illustrations and photos in text. Features: Saved by Two Inches - How a big-horn sheep brought a veteran hunter to the verge of destruction in Montana; Gun-Running with Mexican Outlaw Emiliano Zapata - article with great photos; A Terrible Trip - Gold Searching in German New Guinea; Twenty Years in Newfoundland (Part II) - article with nice photos; Fishermen's Luck - a story from New Zealand involving T. Colthart, H. Hewlett and D.G. FitzGibbon; Across the Andes and Down the Amazon - the story of an adventurous journey (part II); The Well of Skulls - a story from Hyderabad; The Lake of Life - the Idiong secret society in Africa; The King Who Met His Match - a story from Sierra Leone; Trapped in a Tank (cover illustration); Captured by the Monkey-Men - an explorer's tale from the Orinoco River; The Smugglers of Gibraltar; Pete the Pup - an adventurous dog in New Mexico. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Minor chipping to back strip. Three inch opening between front cover and base of spine. Overall a pleasing copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
Features: Was it Coincidence? - a Zulu witch doctor and his magic; The Man Who Hesitated - a dramatic story from West Africa; Comacchio on the Adriatic - the Venice of the Eels - article with photos; The Brophy Will Case - an unusual American detective case; The Wily Coyote - interesting stories of these hated coyotes and their ways in the Western States; McNeill's Lapse - a good man falls victim to temptation; Climbing the White Elephant near the Tom Reed Mine at Oatman, Arizona - article with nice photos; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone (part II) - tales from two young naval officers who set off to see the world with five dollars between them; Lion Hunting in Somaliland - article with many photos; The Cruise of the Dream Ship - part IV of Ralph Stock's sailing through the enchanted South Sea Islands - article with nice photos; Trapped by a Flash-flood in a canyon; Down the River - two youngsters seek fortune and adventure running a little launch on a New Zealand river; Robert Tipp's terrible ordeal at the top of a lofty flagstaff; My Visit to Mexico - why the author didn't want to go and now likes Mexico less than ever; Our Adventures Among the Berbers - the author's experiences with the Shawia Berbers of Algeria - article with great photos; That Donkey! - the pathetic story of a journalist and the donkey he bought; nice vintage ads. Multiple pieces of red, clear and brown tape securing covers. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Witherell Kidnapping case - Mrs. Gladys Witherell was kidnapped for several days - article with photos of victim and perpetrators; Bad Man Louis - a tale from what is now Glacier National Park in Montana; The Justice of the North - The North-West Mounted Police set out in search of two Eskimos - Sinnisiak and Uluksak - who killed Catholic priests in Canada's north; The Cowboys of the Camargue - a description of the life and cowboys of Frances's Camargue; Through Central America on Horseback - Part I - Eugene Cunningham describes his trip by horseback south from San Jose, Costa Rica - with photos; The Wreck of the "Angola" - the horrible tale of 42 days afloat between China and the Philippines; The River of Mystery - the largely unknown Orange River of South Africa; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - VI - the author finds himself hired as a Montana ranch hand; Photo and brief writeup of Turkey farm of Mr. M.A. Stutsman in Barstow, California; Two Boys in the Foreign Legion - young men choose to escape from the French Foreign Legion in the African desert, pursued by Arabs; Photo and brief write-up of "The Joshua Tree", the world's largest Yucca tree in southern California; The Buried Cities of Asia Minor - II - investigating the cities of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; The Cowboy Outlaw - Kid Curry terrorized the western states; Odds and Ends - Hungarian barber and Egyptian fisherman at work; nice vintage ads. Average wear. Bits of external tape secure spine. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Cover shows smiling cowboy on rearing horse. Features: Wise Old Man - Adventures of author while conducting scientific research in remote Amazonia; A Sailor on Horseback - The American adventures of a former British Merchant Seaman, first as a lumberjack and then as a cowboy on a 'dude-ranch'; He Knew Too Much - A grim story of dope-running on the Egyptian border; Lunch-Time Tiger - Author is called upon to deal with a tiger which was terrifying the inhabitants of a Pathan village; The Castaways of the 'Dundonald' - reprint of one of the most remarkable shipwreck stories on record - describes how a British ship was driven ashore on a barren islet in the remote Southern Pacific, where for many weary months the survivors endured many privations in a desperate struggle for existence; A Taste of Freedom - Three firemen jump ship in a South American port... but fate was against them, and they were almost glad to get back; Ghost-Town Memories - Tourist visit the Western U.S. abandoned mining-camps of long ago; Across the Kalahari Desert - The author traversed the trackless Kalahari in a motor-car by way of a dried-up river bed. Black and white illustrations. Chipping to spine. Above-average wear. Magazine
Features: My Life in the French Foreign Legion, by Trevor S.H. Jones, late 1st Regiment Legion Etrangere Infanterie; The Snow Surveyors - men who keep track of the snowfall in the wild mountain ranges of Canada and the United States; My Pistol - a bride not experienced with firearms receives an automatic as a wedding present; A Sailor Adrift - a sailor ends up working at a Rocky Mountain lumber-camp where he has memorable experiences; Through the "Big Bend" of the Rio Grande by Canoe; The Ordeal of Juan Rosas - an Ecuadoran enters the wilds to cut balsa wood; Hair of the Dog - a story of African superstitions; The Will to Live - An Australian example of human endurance along the coast south of Cairns; A Fool Afoot in France - reprint of a 1929 story of an English Walker in France; One Day's Work - New Zealand Volcano; Military Mystery at Benghazi; and more. Two-inch opening at base of front cover fold. Average wear. Binding sound. 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
Please note: Front cover missing. Features include: The Raft - a group of Australians are set adrift in a vast inland sea during a disastrous inundation; The Haunted Tanker - as told by David Kellar, an officer of the Merchant Navy; The Black Pearls of Fatu-Hiva - A weird story from the South Seas as told by Sir Graeme Sinclair-Lockhart; Bill Miner-Bandit - The amazing life-history of one of the most notorious outlaws who ever troubled Canada and the Western States; Act of God - An incident in Karachi, Pakistan; Shooting Star - Am amusing tale from the Sudan; River of the Dead - a gripping story from the little-known interior of Brazil involving the fierce Chavantes people; The Village of Ladders - the Swiss hamlet of Albinen is accessible only by a series of rough ladders; They Live in Trees - The Tree-Dwellers of Travancore State in India; "Living Native" in the South Seas. Illustrated in black and white. Back cover detached. Contents in good condition. Pencil name atop back cover. Magazine
Features: The Mine that Disappeared - a story related by a mining engineer about the Bocanegra Mine; Casshel's Escape - the story of Ernest Casshel, one of the few criminals to ever escape from the "North-West Mounted" (locale - Calgary, Alberta); On the trail of the Dinosaur - a recent expedition into the Colorado River section of the great American Desert, in the State of Arizona, claims to have found not only fossil tracks of the three-toed dinosaur, but a rock-carving of a dinosaur - a picture which man could not have made unless he had seen the reptile he attempted to portray - photos; Babes in a boat - a neophyte sailor and his wife set sail across the Pacific - Part II (conclusion); The Padded Room - one of the most amazing plots in the annals of the French police; Five Greenhorns in Canada - An amusing and illustrated account of the adventures of five inexperienced Englishmen who set forth to make homes for themselves in the Canadian wilderness; Lost in the heart of Peru - an explorer is abandoned by his guide in the upper reaches of the Amazon - part IV (conclusion); The Demon Lion of Bandari - Lion Hunt; At Grips in the Girders - an extraordinary battle; An Alligator-Hunter's Story in Mexico; Part IV of In Search of the Lost Oases - a desert trip from Sollum on the Mediterranean to El Obeid in the Sudan - many photos; The Phantom Reporter - a story from Canada's Pacific Coast by Charles Harrison Gibbons. Above-average wear. Faint owner's name atop front cover else unmarked. Binding intact. Nothing loose. Decent copy of this broadly interesting issue. Book
Pages 265-330 plus 22 pages of ads. Features include: The River-Pilot - author piloted a coal barge in the Monongahela River in West Virginia; Seeking the "Ruined City" - Author's trip to a fantastic natural wonder in Australia's Arnhem Land; Old Ned - Story by a Merchan Navy "Sparks"; The Pay-Out - Author became an assistant barman at a little up-country hotel in South Africa; Canadian Police-Dogs - Close-up; Lingeros - South American hoboes; Bush Bandit - An Australian bushman's strange experience; Through Northern India on Horseback - Author needed to get six horses from Simla to Delhi; River Gold - Author's adventure while cruising down British Columbia's mighty Fraser River; Island of Dreams - Puerto Rico; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County (Part I of 4) - the rise and fall of Charlie Birger in Southern Illinois. Illustrated in black and white. Unmarked with above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
The second issue of this popular and long-lived publication. Pages 114-224. Features: Canadian Curiosities - article with great illustrations; The Marvelous Feats of Juggler Ram Pershad; Earth Pyramids in the Rosengarten Mountains; "For the Company's Credit" - story of an ocean-liner race; The Queerest Monarch in the World - Mwanga, King of Uganda (illustrated article); The Wreck of the "Rising Sun" - fire at sea; Picnics in Perak - article with photo of many Malay sultans aboard elephants crossing a river; The Telegraphist of Neufchateau - true WWI story; The Romance of the Mission Field - part 1; Across the Atlantic in an Open Boat - article with photo of Harvo and Samuelson in their rowboat "Fox"; The Mysterious Tramp; Tree-Blazing - how explorers in Australia's interior mark trees to guide those who may come after them; Bagging a Man-Eater - Major A. St. H. Gibbons kills a lion to protect villagers - article with photo; "The Miracle of Moses" - the Platte High Line Canal in Colorado - article with photos; In Search of an Orchid; The Fiery Ordeal of Fiji - walking on coals (illustrated article; In the Ocean Depths - illustrated recollections of ocean diver John Pearce. Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Last page is 224. It is uncertain if any pages were included after that. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy. Book
An early issue of this popular and long-lived publication. Pages 226-336. Features: The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont - part V; The Votaries of Eternal Silence - the Monastery of La Trappe; E.G. Henham is Saved by a Horse - an 1891 adventure in North-West Canada; A River of Red Lava - photo-illustrated Hawaiian story by Overend G. Rose; Abandoned - Morgan Andrews was left on a desolate island in Lake Winnipeg for 8 days; (Fantastic) Klondike Pictures supplemented by text; The Voyages of the "Mole Hill"; Curious Birds' Beaks; Pirate Hunting in China - Admiral J. Morseby describes the chasing of pirate junks, the queer incidents that happened, and the extraordinary method by which the pirates were smashed (includes photo of Moresby and illustration of the H.M.S. "Snake"); The Indian Child and His Toys - Ute child Capitano and photos of him, his complete outfit of toys, implements and dolls; Christmas in an African Desert - illustrated article by big-game hunter F.C. Selous; How the "Maid of the Mist" Shot the Niagara Rapids (with illustration of Joel R. Robinson); Parachuting adventure of Captain Bidmead (with photos); and more. Front cover loose but present. Few pencil markings. A worthy 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
xxiv, 129-194 pages. Features: Heroes of the Tractor Trails (with cover illustration) - photo-illustrated article on the men who blaze tractor trails across the frozen north to supply mines and the military; Full Ahead to Destruction - a ten million dollar smuggling operation in the Mediterranean - article with photos; Red Eyes of Evil - hunting a 15' crocodile on the Zambezi; The Temple of Snakes - five white men filming a documentary amongst the savage Arusi tribesmen find trouble; Murderers in my Kitchen - the author's two jungle workers were convicted murderers; Trapped in a Floating Tomb - an astonishing sea story from off the Prussian coast involving the "Aurora"; Tooth for a Tooth - a Scotish flyer creates trouble in the city of Kandy on Ceylon when he violates a sacred shrine; Squeeze to Freedom - the amazing escape of a British P.O.W. from a German train in WWII; Caught in a Whirlpool in the Vialala river in Eastern Papua - article with photos; Sports Day with the Veiled Warriors - the Oulliminden Tuaregs of the French Sudan - article with photos; Jungle Guinea Pigs - Sgt. Ken McConnell's Auster crashed in Malaya - his nightmare trip to safety; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
xxiv, 62 pages. Features: First to Sail the Sahara - article (with cover illustration) about the Sheppard family which attempted to windsail across the Sahara Desert - with map and photos; The Bull of Contention - melons of the Bhelwah plantation in north Bihar are being destroyed by a bull antelope which the Hindus consider a sacred nilgai; The Forest Glade Murders - photo-illustrated article from Northern Rhodesia; Captain Mitchell's Last Fight - his schooner spots a U-boat in 1942 (article with photo of the U-boat); The Incredible Snake Man - "Professor" Morrisey deliberately exposed himself to venomous snake bites in Africa; Black Death - a wolf terrorizes farmers and livestock near Kamloops, B.C.; Eggs for the Prisoner - the author was accused of smuggling and imprisoned without food or drink in a cabin of a stifling Pakistani river steamer; March Macabre - horrific ant attacks while obtaining WWII rubber in Ecuador; Britain's Unmapped Outpost - St. Kilda; Trouble at Thirty Fathoms - something goes wrong while welding underwater in a fast-flowing Papua, New Guinea river; Killer Turned Preacher - last instalment of "West to Adventure", the thrilling story of the life of "Jack" Letheby, trapper, prospector and professional gambler; The Squaw's Curse - Marie was the prettiest girl in the Spalumcheen tribe near Kamloops, British Columbia; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
