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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 64 pages. Guy Muldoon "The Stronger Magic" / James Holledge "The Mad Marksman of Koiterangi" / Jorgen Bisch "I Climbed The Jivaros' Sacred Mountain" / Grenville Manton "Flight In A Flying Furnace" / P L N Padfield "We Sailed On All Fools'Day" / John Laffin "One Performance Only" / Reginald L Ottley "The Horse Was More Important" / Guy Batham "Jungle River Nightmare". (SL#257).

1959-1st ed., h/c+d/j, 192 pp, 21.5x14, d/j spine chipped, wear marks. Wonderful drifting adventures of a vagabond lifestyle, anecdotes, adventure as the author cruises the Pacific South seas. Tahiti, Cook Islands, P.N.G., Torres etc. Includes photos.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. First Edition. Ex libris bookplate, Frank G. Glen. Some small tears and chips at ends of dust-jacket spine and corners of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 191, [1] pages + 21 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 135mm. Travel, Pacific. "If you take the urge for adventure, mix it with the desire to sail across the Pacific Ocean, add a liberal handful of loveable islanders in their colourful villages on sun-kissed atolls, then peel off a good slice of wind-tossed ocean, shake it well round a thirty-four-foot yawl, mix the contents thoroughly and bake it in a tropical sun for about three months, you will then have the recipe for 'Drifting Around the South Seas." - from dust-jacket blurb. Contents: Foreword; Introduction to the South Seas; Pacific Hurricane; Vision of Tahiti; The Tattooing of Jean; Shelldiving at Hikueru; Meeting with a Waterspout; Wild Pig Hunt; Shipwreck; Three Men and a Girl; Stowaway; A Cannibal Story; Mad Marco; A Maori Feast; Toss of a Coin; Pearling Adventures; The Shalimar's Treasure; Crocodile Shooting; Back to Civilization.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Nicolson, W.C. (cover) (illustratore). First Edition. 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.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Nicolson, W.C. (cover); (illustratore). First Edition. 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.