The lure of danger: true adventure stories.
Title:
The lure of danger: true adventure stories.
Author:
Scoggin, Margaret C. (Margaret Clara), 1905-1968, compiler.
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Edition:
[First edition].
Publication Information:
New York : A.A. Knopf, 1947.
Physical Description:
5 leaves, [3]-374 pages ; 22 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
J.D. Craig. The philosophy of danger.--H.W. Lanier and Victor Herge. The terror of the deep.--Tom Eadie. The story of Michels.--Edward Ellsberg. The Laurentic yields her gold.--Charles Courtney. Kitchener's gold.--Harold Kelleck. Escape artist and master magician.--T.J. Waldeck. On safari.--I.T. Sanderson. The cave of the bats.--Carl Akeley. Elephant.--Frank Buck. Tapir on a rampage.--R.L. Ditmars. Buying dynamite.--C.R. Cooper. Cap Ricardo speaks.--Edwin Muller, jr. The great climb.--J.R. Ullman. Summit of the world: the fight for Everest.--Wolfgang Langewiesche. Knapsack of salvation
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Format :
Book