Supermen Who Went Out Fo Explore The Wilds

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 32, 20 January 1939, Page 16

Supermen Who Went Out Fo Explore The Wilds

Stories Of Heroes Now Forgotten —

"GAVE honour to whom honour is ' due" is a noble saying, but unfortunately in our aquick-lived age we forget so often who deserved preservation in the minds of people. , We admire explorers who open up new country, brave men who ado memorable deeds, reckless fellows who laugh at danger. Something is always hapnening nowadays, and if some time should really go by without a startling expedition to same wild part of the wilds, well, then the newspapers have to "boost" some second-rate adventure. Of the nineteenth century, the only great explorers that are universally still remenibered are Livingstone and Stanley, but there were a host of others that did the most unbelievable things at tha‘ time. "Honour is due" to Mr. Bridges for bringing these great adventurers of that century from

apparent oblivion, people who travelled then the length and breadth of America and Asia, of -AuStralia ang Africa. The "Heroes of Forgotten Adventure" described by Mr. Bridges are veritable heroes. He gives us short narratives of their lives in all parts of the globe, and remember that when those supermen went out to unexplored continents anil wild countries, they did not even know quinine to save them from fever, they had no mosquito-nets, and their weapons compared with ours, were toys. Mr. Bridges, thank you again for reminding us what great fellows our forbears were and thank. you for letting us see how rather commonplace are some of our supposedly great. adventurers when compared with the already forgotten "heroes of the trail’ in the nineteenth century.--S'K. "Heroes of Forgotten Adventure." T. ©. Bridges. Harrap, London. Our copy from the publishers. | aK