From 1898 to 1965, The Wide World was the bestselling magazine for men who craved adventure. Each issue was filled with extraordinarily eccentric, but true, tales from around the world, ranging from lion hunts and shark attacks to brigandage, club bets and survival. There are thrilling accounts of well-documented, yet forgotten exploits, such as Sir Vivian Bunny Fuch's Trans-Antartic Expedition of 1957 and war hero Maurice Wilson's disastrous (totally insane) solo assault on Everest in 1933. There is an endless fascination ...
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From 1898 to 1965, The Wide World was the bestselling magazine for men who craved adventure. Each issue was filled with extraordinarily eccentric, but true, tales from around the world, ranging from lion hunts and shark attacks to brigandage, club bets and survival. There are thrilling accounts of well-documented, yet forgotten exploits, such as Sir Vivian Bunny Fuch's Trans-Antartic Expedition of 1957 and war hero Maurice Wilson's disastrous (totally insane) solo assault on Everest in 1933. There is an endless fascination with logging, lion wrestling, and the ranking of snakes in terms of their venom. Great details emerge, such as the fact the man who survived going over Niagra Falls in a rubber ball later died after slipping on a banana skin in New Zealand, or that a Wolf will never eat a human foot. There is even real pathos, as when we learn Maurice Wilson's last diary entry before dying on Everest reads: Off again...Gorgeous day. Recounted in wonderful, muscular prose (in which a wet suit is a 'free swimming aqua-lung outfit') and accompanied by maps, editorials, brief reports and adverts of sublime absurdity, this anthology will include the best of the magazine, presented
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Ripped/damaged jacket. The dust jacket of this book is slightly damaged/ripped, however, this does not affect the internal condition.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Tight binding; clean, unmarked pages. Minor wear only. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 182 p. Audience: General/trade.
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F in F jacket. F/F. 8vo. original black boards gilt (texter mark to tail edge, denoting a remaindered copy) in dustwrapper; pp. 184, with numerous lurid illustrations. A fine copy. The Wide World was the best selling magazine for men craving adventure between the late 19th century and the swinging sixties. This anthology of articles and illustrations is a fascinating and often bizarre record of true life adventures over a era that will never be repeated. The anthology contains much of mountaineering interest, including an account of Bonatti's ascent of the Petit Dru in 1955 ('The Sheer Face of Hell'), and Dennis Robert's serialised account of Maurice Wilson's lone attempt on Everest '' I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone! '. Other ripping yarns include 'A Fight with a Leopard', 'Buried alive by a Dead Elephant', 'Out of the Lion's Jaws', 'Bandsaw Amok' (set in a Canadian timber mill'! ), 'The Professor in a Bear Trap' and perhaps strangest of all, 'Over Niagara Falls in a Rubber Ball! '.