The WIDE WORLD The True Adventure Magazine for Men
September 1956
Published by George Newnes, London. Original price 2/- in Australia.
Cover art by W.C. Nicolson - illustration for Jungle Hermit story. W. C. Nicolson (William Campbell Nicolson 1880-1965) was a Scottish artist who did 100s of cover illustrations for The Wide World.
Features:
- The Heroes of Vemork by Frederick E Smith; the courage and daring of a small band of men who sabotaged the vital heavy water plant at Vermork in Norway in 1943; as told by Fredrik Kayser
- Mutuwadi’s Cobra by H.W. Tattersall.
- Manhunt on Fire Mountain by Michael Irwin; as told to me by a member of the South African Police (illustrated by Kenneth Brookes)
- Arctic Hazard by John Hollin: a party of explorers arrive in the Spitsbergen archipelago; (photos)
- Jungle Hermit by R De La Bere Barker; this man prefers a hermit’s existence in the wilds of East Africa; (photos) (illustrations by Holloway)
- Dancing Turtle by E.J. Edwards; the author spent fourteen years in the South Pacific as a missionary; for much of the time he was stationed at Upolu Island Western Samoa. (photos) (illustrations by Holloway)
- They Sail the World Alone by Guy Cole: by a man who sailed the Atlantic with one companion in a 30-foot boat; (photos) (illustrations by Ellis)
- Flying Hooves of Calgary by Frank Illingworth: for six days every July the thrills of the old Wild West come to town; (photos)
- He Believes in Sea Monsters by John St Clare; an expedition is to probe the mystery of huge creatures believed to lurk in the depths of the ocean; (sketches)
- Death and Diamonds on Possession (I Know An Island - III) by Carel Birkby; a story of Possession Island, South Africa
Pages numbered 198 to 262 + 22 pages of advertisements; b/w illustrations including photographs; 24.5 x 18 cm; 190g
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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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