Author: GARKIN, DMITRI; WOODROFFE, J. FROUDE; PATTERSON, WALTER G.; BROWNE, J.E.; GODSELL, P.H.; PRICHARD, KATHARINE; COMSTOCK, EDITH I.; ET AL
Title: The Wide World - the Magazine for Men, January [Jan. ] 1915, Vol. 34, No. 201: Experiences in Keewatin
Description: New York: The International New Company, 1915. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Alexandre; Hunter, Leslie; et al. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: A Dead Man's Diary - Dmitri Garkin's body - and his diary - were discovered in the summer of 1913 on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean; Three Thousand Miles On A Raft - an adventurous voyage down the Amazon from Central Ecuador to Northern Brazil; A Railway Race With Robbers - A Sheriff pursues three desperate bank robbers in New York State; The Mutiny of the "Ziba" - part II - Captain John Hart relates how he was eventually able to escape and see justice brought to the murderers; The Land of the North Wind - P.H. Godsell describes his experiences in Keewatin; A Christmas Crime - story from the Australian back-blocks; The Great Cook Problem - the amusing story of how a resourceful woman tackled one part of the "Yellow Peril" in Nevada's "Bean House"; Tight Corners - part I - E.Torday recounts some of his African big game hunting adventures; "Smut" (short story about a queer pet and some of his doings); The Tree Spirit (short story from the area near Singapore); Our Travels in Safari-Land - part II of Edith Cecil-Porch and her journey through the wilds of British East Africa travelling with a wagon pulled by six oxen; Cupid and the "Wireless" - Sidney Lehre recounts a telegraphic affair while he was in the wireless service; Wonderful one-page photo of "An Eastern Venice", the town of Brunei, Borneo, once the headquarters of the dreaded Borneo pirates. Photo of a Kikuyu warrior buying a wife, paying with goats. pp. 8 [ads], 197-292, 9-32 [ads]. Tight, clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Wide World Magazine, January 1915, Dmitri Garkin, diary, Arctic Ocean, Rafting - Amazon, Ecuador, Brazil; Train Race, The Mutiny of the Ziba, John Hart, P.H. Godsell, Keewatin, Australian outback; Yellow Peril - Nevada, Bean House, E.Torday big ga. Very Good .

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