EXPLORERS' ADVENTURES

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 22

EXPLORERS' ADVENTURES

In "Told at tho Explorers' Club: True Tales of Modern Exploration," each of thirty-three noted explorers recounts, in his own words,.an exciting episode from his career. The adventures range over every quarter of the world —from tho Arctic to the South Sea Islands, from Costa Rica to Singapore. We have Colonel Lindbergh's description of his blind parachute leap from an aeroplane, Felix Biesenberg's eerie narrative, "Arctic Ghost," Sir Hubert Wilkins's account of the Australian abprigines, an extraordinary tale of Samoa called "The Fire-dog of Asu," which gives a parallel of fact to Conan. Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles," and many stories of adventures with polar bears, tigers, walruses, etc. Only the co-operation of the famous Explorers' Club of America, membership of which is. an honour sought by travellers of every nationality, has made it possible for such a distinguished group of contributors to be found in ono book; the proceeds of the sale of the American edition go to the library of the club, aud it is for that reason that each explorer consented to write his own account of one of his adventures.