WIDE WORLD The True Adventure Magazine for Men
JANUARY 1963 Vol 129 No. 771
Published by George Newnes, London. Original price 2/6 in Australia and New Zealand.
Features:
- The Spaceguards By L.B. Taylor, Jr., science and technology make space travel possible, yet without the courage of a handful of men, every journey might end in tragedy
- An Enemy Within by Tom Mitchell: in the darkness, fear suddenly struck terror in his mind … (illustration by Fred Laurent)
- Supersonic Lancers: U.S.A. their play is as perilous as their work (Photos)
- The Endless War by Dewitt Copp and Marshall Peck; the 1962 story of an operation in the narrow waters of the Formosa Strait (photos)
- Desert Paradise: out of the atom bomb grew new life for a dead land
- Runaway Bear by Peter Hall ; it brought panic to an Indian village but there was more humour than drama in the situation
- The Sheer Face of Hell by David Lampe, Jr.,: alone, Walter Bonatti set out to climb the half-mile of near vertical rock that was said to be unconquerable (photos)
- Salt-Walter Killer by R.A. Moncrieff: his quarry was a vicious, eighteen-fee-long maneater, his weapons were a leg of pork, a book and a hope; an Australian story Gulf of Carpentaria, Kaiyunga Station (photos)
- Blind Faith by Glynn Croudace: if she was to live, the young seal had to trust the man she feared (pjhotos)
- Cloud of Death by Roland Warr; trapped by hordes of locusts, the dawn brought them not rescue, but a suffocating cloud of death in Ethiopia (photos)
- Rattan Duellists of Java by John Laffin
Pages numbered 361 to 432 including pages of advertisements; b/w illustrations including photographs; 25 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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