The WIDE WORLD The Magazine for Men - two magazines

September 1954 and August 1960

Published by George Newnes, London.   Original price 1/9 in Australia. 

SEPTEMBER  1954, Vol 113, No 674

• Brennan goes Trapping   by Paul Bunyan - a young Irishman joins a party of trappers setting out for wild country in Canada; (illustrations by S Tresilian)
•  A Matter of Command  by “Seagoer” - Master and Mate did not get along;
• Desert Cities of M'Zab   by Robert Smith - driven out of North Africa, the Mozabites fled south and settled in the Sahara; (photos)
• A Man of Mettle b John C Cairns- a Kashmiri Headsman aids four R.A.F Officers on leave; (photos)
• The White Porpoise  by Lieut.=Commander W.G. Mcneilly, late R.I.N.V.R., - what happened when a couple of youngsters used a home-made harpoon in Loch Long, Scotland;
• Land Without Women by Cris Norlund - Greek monasteries where females have not been allowed for almost a thousand years;(photos)
• Boom Boat replaces the famous boom man on the North American West Coast;
• Muhammad Ali's Quest by A.H.B. - a Red Sea Tale; (Edward Osmond)
• Ten Tragedies by L.C. Lelard - 10 mutilated corpses are found in West Africa; (Neville Dear)
• A Witch at Work by Michal Taaffe  - African divination

Cameo Advertisement featuring David Farrar:   David Farrar (1908-1995) was an English stage and film actor, known for his Sexton Blake films.   His other films include  Powell and Pressburger films Black Narcissus (1947), The Small Back Room (1949) and Gone to Earth (1950) and Duel in the Jungle (1954),

Pages numbered 260 to 324 + 22 pages of advertisements;  b/w illustrations including photographs;   24.5 x 17.5  cm;  180g

AUGUST 1960, Vol 125 No 742

• The Golden Louis of Anse Boileau by William Travis
• Bighorns Are Only Sheep by Harry P McKeever
• Madman with a Kris by Ricardo de Gregoire
• And Not To Yield!  By Major Mike Banks, Royal Marines (photos)
• The Vultures Keep Watch by Dr Stephen Laing
• Australia’s Casanova of Crime by James Holledge
• Black Panther by Donald Kennelly
• Kidnap Cargo by Robin Corey

Cameo Advertisement featuring Micky Hargitay:  Miklós Karoly Hargitay (1926-2006), was a Hungarian-American actor and the 1955 Mr. Universe.  He was married to actress Jayne Mansfield and is the father of actress Mariska Hargitay.  His first movie with Jane Mansfield was Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957).

58 Pages + 24 pages of advertisements;  b/w illustrations including photographs;   24.5 x 17.5  cm;  155g

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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.

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