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DANGER MY ALLY, bv F. A. MitchellHedges; Elek, English price 18/-. ) "THERE should still be room, even in these hurried days, for travel-and-_adventure works running ~into -three | volumes. I can see no other way in which | a man of the calibre of F. A. MitchellHedees can do iustice to his life. Two hundred and fifty pages is too little space for the account of his early career in money-crazy pwre-1914 America, let / alone for that of two South American | expeditions which seem likely to change | present concepts of pre-history. The author himself seems aware of | this deficiency, and tries in his preface to establish some sort of mvstical theme. Rut the canvas is too small and the blocks of detail too large for the theme to develop fully before the final chapters There. however, it does develon. as | he finds-first in the juncles of Lubaan_tum and later among the Bay Islands- _ traces and artifacts of a race that had **s history before historv bheoan; the civilised race that once lived on the surten continent we, call Atlantis. There is much more in this book besides. Too much. We would appreciate a second and third from a man who believes that if life is to be lived at all, it is to be lived dangerously.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 820, 15 April 1955, Page 14
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