THE WIDE WORLD The Magazine for Men SEPTEMBER 1952 Australian issue

Description: The WIDE WORLD The Magazine for Men TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE SEPTEMBER 1952; No. 650 Published by George Newnes, London. Original price 1/6 in Australia. Cover illustration: Rock Formation, Matopo Hills, Southern Rhodesia. W. C. Nicolson (1880-1965) was a Scottish artist who did 100s of cover illustrations for The Wide World. Features: Operation Sikh by Captain Reginald Beatty M.C.; The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders: - An incident connected with the strange hide-and-seek war now being waged in the steamy jungles of Malaya; A Sailor on Horseback by “Jason” - Jack ashore takes to riding at his peril; Two Miracles by G.D. - An Army officer's experience in the Western Desert during World War II; Phantom Fortune by Robert Barlow - the fascinating history of sundry vanished gold-mines in the wilds of British Columbia; Tasmania's Wild West by Arnold M Maahs; (photos and map)A Mystery of the "Bad Lands" by Harry E Webb, first published in 1927, - a cowboy's weird experience in the Badlands of Wyoming; (Edward Osmond) The Figurehead a strange sea-mystery by John Doody - a story involving the windjammer L'Avenir; Gold Coast Ju-Ju by “Nunquam”; (Holloway)Box of Tricks by Douglas Kerr - an isolated Army camp in Palestine is cursed with cunning Arab thieves; (Nicolle?)Personal-Column Crusoes by Lawrence D Hills - advice for prospective adventurers; (Brock)Leturc's Island by C.V. Tench - Jacques Leturc took over an uninhabited South Sea Island and turned it into a profitable enterprise, only to encounter disaster; (Edward Osmond) Desert Hitch-Hike by Reg Butler - 1,200 miles across Northern Africa to catch a steamer; (photos) Pages numbered 242 to 308 + 24 pages of advertisements; b/w illustrations including photographs; 25 x 17 cm; 165g I COMBINE POSTAGE: please use the cart or wait for invoice for multiple items The Wide World Magazine was a British monthly illustrated publication which ran from April 1898 to December 1965. The magazine was founded by well-known publisher George Newnes, also famous for Tit-Bits, The Strand Magazine, Country Life & others. It described itself as 'an illustrated magazine of true narrative' & each month purported to feature 'true-life' adventure & travel stories gathered from around the world. Its motto was 'Truth is stranger than fiction'. Some famous names occasionally wrote for the magazine (such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Morton Stanley, Douglas Reeman etc.) and it was copiously illustrated with photographs, as well as black and white drawings by such artists as Terence Cuneo, Cecil Stuart Tresilian, Alfred Pearse, Chas Sheldon, Paul Hardy, William Barnes Wollen, John L. Wimbush, Charles J. Staniland, Joseph Finnemore, John Charlton, Warwick Goble, Tom Browne, Ernest Prater, Gordon Browne, Edward S. Hodgson, Norman H. Hardy, Inglis Sheldon Williams, and Harry Rountree. Australian (and presumably New Zealand and South African) readers and collectors should note that the issue numbers were, from some point in the 1920s or 30s, a month behind the English issues. RETURNS POLICY: Refund given if item significantly not as described, not for change of mind– email seller first to discuss any problem using the “contact seller” option. The ACCC advises Consumer guarantees do not apply if you: (a) got what you asked for but simply changed your mind, found it cheaper somewhere else, decided you did not like the purchase or had no use for it (b) misused a product in any way that caused the problem (c) knew of or were made aware of the faults before you bought the product (d) asked for a service to be done in a certain way against the advice of the business or were unclear about what you wanted

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