Author: STEELE, HARWOOD; MENGES, CHARLES; SENIOR, J.K. WILSON; MUSSON, H.P.; WILKINS, HAROLD T.; THORENFELDT, KAI; DICKIE, FRANCIS; BURDEN, W. DOUGLAS; STUART-REID, G.E.; CROCOMBE, LEONARD; RUSSELL, F.L.
Title: The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, December [Dec. ] 1928, Vol. LXII, No. 368: Policing the Great White North / Cycling Round the World / Parachuting
Description: New York: The International News Company, 1928. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Nicholson, W.C.; Sutcliffe, Norman. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Policing the Great White North - A photo-illustrated account of the manifold perils and hardships that are the daily portion of the gallant handful of men who represent law and order in the Vast Canadian Arctic; Pathetic fate of two missing WWI Sheffield soldiers revealed - William Thompson and George Walter Howard; Bill's Bear-Cub - An American trapper adopts a bear cub and his partner foretells disaster; Three Months on an Island Inferno - J.K. Wilson explains his 'holiday' on White Island, near Tauranga, New Zealand - with photos; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada - Part I - What happened after H.P. Musson, a transplanted London paper-pusher, lost his job as a hired hand in Western Canada and began looking for his own homestead; Trapping Wild Animals in Northern Siam - The ingenious methods by which the jungle folk trap fierce whild beasts, with great photos; Cycling Round the World - Part III of III of Kai Thorenfeldt's amazing 20,000 mile journey which took over two years - with map and nice photos; Forgotten Fortunes - Frances Dickie describes the remarkable circumstances in which two of the most amazing 'finds' in the history of European art have lately come to light in France - with photo of Mrs. M.L. Westmoreland, who discovered a valuable Goya in a Paris second-hand shop; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part II - Seeking the prehistoric Komodo dragon on a remote Dutch East Indies (Indonesian) island; A Terrible Journey - Joseph Metcalf fell into an underground conduit conveying water from a dam to Port Elizabeth - forty-five miles away!; The Greatest of All Thrills - A wonderfully photo-illustrated article on the new sport of parachuting from aircraft; "Heir Number Six" - A Winnipeg real estate agent goes to the North-West territory in search of an obscure half-breed regarding a dispute over land ownership. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine, December 1928, R.C.M.P, RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, J.E.F. Wight, Paul Gauguin - Joan of Arc, Arctic Policing, Canadian Arctic - policing, MIA soldiers WWI, Sheffield, William Thompson, George Walter Howard, Bill's Bear-Cub. Good .

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