The Wonder Book of the Wild: The Romance of Exploration and Big Game Stalking

256 pp. Red cloth spine, pictorial paper over boards - color picture plate mounted on front board matches jacket art. Includes 8 color plates and over two hundred two-tone illustrations, many from photographs. A collection of adventure and exploration writing by various authors. Includes: the Antarctic adventures of Rear-Admiral E.R.G.R. Evans of the Scott Expedition; Captain G.I. Finch and his experience climbing Mount Everest; Rosita Forbes, telling of her experiences in the deserts of Northern Africa and Arabia; Sir Wilfred Grenfell's journeys in Labrador; Captain Angus Buchanan's description of his trek across the Sahara Desert; Major Owen Rutter's adventures in Borneo; Captain G.M. Dyott's travels in Peru; H.F. Farmer's winter spent with Patagonian Indians; Michael Terry's exploits by motor car in uncharted Northern Australia.