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197448 pages. Features: Letters; Chinese Artifacts, by Flo & Al Clemens; 3rd Annual Vancouver Island Bottle Show & Sale - photo-illustrated article; Nanaimo Dig Club; Sealed Bottles, by Dick & Barbara Hoyle; Insulators, by Larry & Wendy Lundgren; Relics, by Jim Heidt; Auto Collectibles, by Allan Gadsen; Old Guns, by Mike Hill; Vancouver Notes, by D. Harrison; Gold Seal Liquor Co., Vancouver, B.C.; International Wine Co., by G. Northcote; Collecting Old Locks; Documents & Other Paper Collectibles; More Jugs; Living Free - Patricia Armitage writes about Dieter and Tina Bonkowski of Yellow Point - with photos; Old Phonographs, by Coleman Kiss; Depression Glass; Fruit Jar Corner; Collectors of Note; The Karbonated Korner - The Comox Valley Mysteries, by Bill Patterson; The West Coast Mystery - "Stone Bear" found by Morris McNally of Nanaimo; Articles from the collection of Norm and Sandy Barker of Chase River, B.C.; Furniture, Lamps & Bric A Brac; French Ivory, by M. Skrill; Prairie News; Club Directory; Classified ads; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this interesting British Columbia bottle collecting periodical. Book
1962184 pages. Line drawings. Illustrator's inscription and signature inside front board. "This is a story about the Indian tribes in British Columbia who hunted the giant whales of the Pacific." - from dust jacket. Intended for readers aged 12 and up. One of the three names to whom Ms. Weiler inscribed this copy has been obscured by ink. Moderate wear to book. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound copy. Book
2012ref. 260801Afton Minnesota: White Pine Prints 2012. First edition one of 100 copies printed. Full color illustrations from photographs. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Black cloth. As new in dust jacket. First edition one of 100 copies printed. Full color illustrations from photographs. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Lavishly illustrated work on the Whale River Salmon Camp founded in 1967 by Stan Karbowski 1917-2010 the people the flora and the surrounding landscape of northern Quebec. The photographer Chuck Koosman first visited the Whale in 2001. David Ledie has fished the river for 18 years and chronicles the history of the camp and the changes in the salmon runs over the decades noting that the numbers of fish seen and caught came back dramatically when the Greenland and Newfoundland commercial salmon fisheries were bought out. A beautiful production. White Pine Prints unknown
2012ref. 260801Afton Minnesota: White Pine Prints 2012. First edition one of 100 copies printed. Full color illustrations from photographs. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Black cloth. As new in dust jacket. First edition one of 100 copies printed. Full color illustrations from photographs. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Lavishly illustrated work on the Whale River Salmon Camp founded in 1967 by Stan Karbowski 1917-2010 the people the flora and the surrounding landscape of northern Quebec. The photographer Chuck Koosman first visited the Whale in 2001. David Ledie has fished the river for 18 years and chronicles the history of the camp and the changes in the salmon runs over the decades noting that the numbers of fish seen and caught came back dramatically when the Greenland and Newfoundland commercial salmon fisheries were bought out. A beautiful production. White Pine Prints unknown books
1960385p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1987394 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Many great black and white photographic plates. "The epic northern adventure of the men who rushed for gold, the workers who toiled in winter storms and thawing muck carving the grade and laying rail, and the ingenious characters who dreamed, schemed, promoted, and finally built the White Pass and Yukon Railway." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this informative work. Book
1919Pages 180-262 plus 16 pages of ads. This is a particularly excellent issue jammed full of fascinating accounts. Features: Terrible Experiences in the Arctic - a whaling schooner is crushed by ice and its crew exists on moss and snow for nearly a week; Amat Sik - Hero of the Singapore Mutiny - he avenged the killing of his employer, an English officer; The Trade Guilds of Constantinople - article with truly amazing photos; The Yaqui Luck-Piece; My Brumby Hunt; When Everything Happened to Me - hauling timber in the 1870s; Salving (Salvaging) Fifty Million Pounds' Worth of Shipping - fantastic photo-illustrated article on some of the 500 ships saved by the Admiralty Salvage Section in WWI; The Sun Dance - photo-illustrated account of a trip to Alberta, Canada to witness the Sun Dance, an annual festival of the Indians; My Dashes fro Freedom - Lieut. E.H. Garland's account of how he escaped from 12 German prison camps in WWI - article with illustrations and photos of the Holzminden Tunnel; ; In Search of Gold - John A. Jordan in East Africa; Our Disastrous Cattle Drive - tale of an horrific Australian cattle drive; Fascinating photo of a "Tramps' Hotel" in the fashion of a jail - they are required to break a quantity of rock for use in road construction before they can leave; The Kaiser's Girls - a tale of 'amazing political intrique and cold-blooded devilry' from German-occupied Russia; The Serpent Garden of Butantan, near Sao Paulo, Brazil - photo-illustrated article; My 'Roo (Kangaroo) Hunt with the 'Flying Gang' - hunting on the banks of the Murray River; With the Ortolan Trappers - photo-illustrated article on how these birds were caught; and more. Half-page photo ad for the Granliden Hotel of Lake Sunapee, N.H.; Lovely illustrated one-page ad for Canada Steamship Lines - "Shooting the Rapids of the Historic St. Lawrence in 1819"; Uncommon ad for "Tobacco Redeemer" by Newell Pharmacal inside back cover claims to help smokers kick the habit in 48 to 72 hours. Covers detached as one, but present. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A wonderful vintage issue. Book
1913Pages 102-195 plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: The Musical Smugglers - a Hungarian liable for military service manages to evade the border patrol and escape; The Salmon Fisheries of the Pacific - article by John N. Cobb, formerly of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, supported with many wonderful photos; On the Wings of the Wind - the extraordinary story of how Mrs. S.L. Pattison met her husband in New Mexico; Four Women in the Desert - four ladies set out to penetrate the ancient Coptic monasteries of the Libyan Desert, the oldest Christian religious houses in the world - article with photos; The Lovers' Raft - a remarkable story from China, describing the fiendish punishment meted out by the wild border tribes to those who are suspected of being false to their marriage vows; Through the Land of Witchcraft (part IV) - remarkable stories of 'ju-ju' from remote districts of West Africa, with photos; The Crusoe of Soledad Bay - Beached yachters in Southern California meet a marooned criminal derelict working out his own salvation; Across the Congo part V of a lady's journey in Central Africa, with photos; Joe's Battle - Canadian timber-wolves attack a cabin; The Humours of Mountaineering - with photos; 'Tween Decks on a Cattle-Boat - a young Canadian wishing to reach England signs on as a cattleman upon a steamer at new York; Penelope in the West Indies - with great photos; Trapped in a Log-Jam - the curious adventure which befell two American college students on the Ohio River; Photo and brief write-up of Arizona convict Roy J. Meyers who invented a Tesla-like "Power Absorber" which drew energy from the atmosphere; Great group photo of Utah seniors with combined ages of ten thousand years!; Nice half-page illustrated ad for the Eagle 9-12 motorcycle by the American Motor Company; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1916Pages 97-192 plus 32 pages of vintage ads. Features: A Battle With a Bear - a young sportsman drops into a lively rough-and-tumble fight with a big black bear; Real-Life Romances of the War (part I) - Malcolm Savage Treacher, a sergeant in a famous regiment who has been invalided to England after an exciting time in the Near East sets down stories - cameos of the Great War - told to him by soldiers during his seven months' sojourn in various hospitals (part I); From Job To Job Around the World (part IV) - the continuing remarkable adventures of two young Americans who set out from San Francisco with ten dollars between them to work their way around the world - this instalment featuring their adventures in the Philippines, with photos; The Darkest Hour (part I) - Our experiences in the Great Serbian Retreat; A Year in Arctic Siberia (part II) - a well-known Polish lady describes her experiences in the little-known regions of far-northern Siberia; The Strategy of Sister Madeleine - the story of a French Captain's Escape from the Germans; The River That Won't Behave - the mighty Mississippi regularly floods enormous areas - article with many dramatic photos; Fallen Among Thieves - the author finds himself in a very nasty hole after taking a job offered him by strangers; A Holiday in Mongolia - Juliet Bredon offers a chatty description, illustrated with photos - of a trip into Mongolia on donkey-back; A Prisoner of the Rocks - F. Hopkins Graves was caught in a British Columbia avalanche and only escaped death by a miracle, only to find himself caught in a veritable rat trap among the rocks which he only escaped after two days; Photo of terrible street-car accident in Spokane, Washington; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1914100 pages plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: Real-Life Romances - six narratives of travel in Italy; Captain Thompson's 'Catch' - Captain Thompson of Knight's Key, Florida catches a huge bizarre 'whale/shark' - article with photos; Drifting Through Mesopotamia - Russian M. Dutkevitch and his photo-illustrated account of floating down the mighty Tigris to Bagdad; A Naturalist in the Arctic - Mr. Koren, a Norwegian naturalist, becomes a castaway in Siberia after his vessel is wrecked in the ice; The "Phantom Brigands" of Pegomas - how the puzzle of these these French criminals (described in the March, 1912 issue) was finally solved; Our Trip to the Kolahoi Glacier - a journey by two officers of the Indian Army to the source of the Jhelum River - with great photos; My Adventures in Sarawak (part II) - Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak describes her time as the Rajah's bride; Two Years in Guatemala - Alfred R. Lamb describes his eventful time organizing the police force of Guatemala; The Bishop's Visit - what happened when a Bishop visited the bungalow of an Indian planter; The Fur-Buyer's Peril - Frank J. Scheider nearly froze to death in the wilds of Ontario; Moose-Hunting in New Brunswick; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1914Pages 503-598, plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: Eight Days On a Capsized Ship - three seamen tough it out upon the overturned hull of the 'Anna Rebecca' in 1906 off Memel (with photos); My Adventures in Sarawak (part I) - Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak describes her experiences getting to know 'the loveable little people and their language' (with photos); The Girl Who Came to Copperfield, Oregon - Miss Fern Hobbs was sent at the head of a regiment of soldiers to restore order in the lawless town of Copperfield - article with photo of Miss Hobbs; Across Canada by Motor-Car (part II) - Photo-illustrated account of the second half of Mr. Wilby's arduous journey, ending in British Columbia; My Escape from Kelantan - a veteran pioneer of Malaya, W.E. Nash, relates how he took a frail stern-wheel river steamer across the China Sea in the teeth of a monsoon; The Case of "Jack Thompson" - an Englishman in a Bolivian prison; The Haunted Trees - The Malays believe evil spirits take up residence in certain 'hantu' trees; Pieter Erberfeld, Traitor - the story behind this man and a memorial tablet, bearing his skull, in Batavia, Dutch West Indies (Indonesia); The Hermit of Smith's Mountain - a strange character in San Diego County; Man-Eaters - the menace wild animals constitute to dwellers in less-favoured parts of the world; Sport in the Ukraine - with photos; Freshwater Pearl-Fishing - clam-fishing as carried out on the rivers of Illinois - with great photos; Wanted, A Wife - the amusing adventures of Dominick Forese of Butte, Montana; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
1914Pages 401-498, plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: "Hoodlum" - the plucky deed of fireman Roger Berry aboard the tug-boat "Elmer" on Lake Erie one stormy night - article with photos; Some New British Climbs - George Abraham describes a new route up the famous Pillar Rock and more, illustrated with remarkable photos; Like a Rat in a Trap - a nerve-trying adventure from 1888 near Southall, Middlesex finding leaks in a sewer pipe; Hurri Singh's Cobra - an adventure from the lake district of Kumaon; A Remarkable Open-Air Theatre at Interlaken, Switzerland; The Ship of Death - a strange story of the awful experience which befell a party of Royal Navy officers and men who boarded a mysterious barque on the high seas in 1908; East Africa As I Saw it (part IV) - photo-illustrated adventures illustrate life in Portuguese East Africa; The Swift Saskatchewan - what happened to a man who fell asleep in a canoe in the mighty Saskatchewan River in 1907; "Back to the Land" - a man in South Africa discovers he is not likely to become a successful farmer; The Poacher-Catchers - adventures of the five-man teams which guard the fur-bearing animals of Yellowstone Park; Pedro the Ladrone - an exciting story from the Philippines told by an officer of the U.S. Army who was in charge of a company of native scouts, with photo of the surrender of General Ramon Santos at Liago; Across Canada by Motor-Car (part I) - the first and only attempt ever made to cross canada from Ocean to Ocean - this marvelously photo-illustrated article deals with Thomas Wilby's experiences on the way to Winnipeg, where his worst troubles began; The Fight in the Moonlight - H. Randolph Spencer and his adventure with two bears in the Olympic Mountains in 1905; Photo of huge floating (?) Burmese pagoda in the form of a hen; Photo of large metallic anklets riveted to young women of Southern Nigeria; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1957xxiv, 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
1957xxiv, 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
1928Pages 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
1898The 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
1899An 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
1950Pages 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
1925Features: 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
1951Please 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
1928Features: 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
1953Features: 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
1955Cover 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
1921Features: 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
1921Black 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
