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BEYOND KHYBER PASS. Lowell
Thomas. The Century Co.

BEYOND KHYBER PASS. Lowell
Thomas. The Century Co.
Many a reader will hasten 10 try
out Beyond khyber Pass. These,
the ones who, under the leadership
of this author, were with Lawrence
in Arabia" an amazingly spirited
romance, founded upon pure fact ano
carried out also upon such basis
Lowell Thomas is an adventurer OF
the tribe that denies the unattaln-
able. A region, inaccessible-either
through barriers set up by nature
itself or through the decreed exclu-
sions of it's people-that is the place
for him. Brand-new adventure lies
that way. instead of the shop-worn
stuff gathered from the popular
roads of travel. And romance. too.
is likely to he hidden in these
guarded corners. a romantic sd-
venturer questinG fresh trails. such
is Lowell Thomas who, looking up
and down the earth and round about
II. espied the forbidding khyber
Pass and beyond it-Arghanistan,
about which 50 little is really known.
And there's aSon for the care
fully hidden character of the coun-
try. For many years Russia pressed
India from the south. Between sucn
upper and neither milestone. existence
itself for Afghanistan depended upon
rigidly sustained inhospitality.
When. by necessity, this was over
come by an unwelcome intrusion. the
departure of the invaders was in
Varlably accompanied by con-
t1nuous ambush that, besides depict
ing their numbers, acted unfavorably
lei ,tnh
ures Afshanistan has kept herself
In good standing as a member OF
the hermit class of nations.
1t is ia this region that the author
and Harry Chase the fanatic pho
toSrapher, betake themselves to
hunt ont new chapters in the long
story Of peoples and places. The
good equipment of these two is the
sharp ZeSt of adventure. two pairs
OF Keen eyes. minds fitted not only
I" project picturesque scenes n
their own vivid colors but 10 inter
pref them as well by way of the
racial strain that in this environ
mem developed peculiar custom and
habit. Physical vigor is part of
this equipment, too. And con-
hrmed use Of direct and simple
speech makes this one Of The most
communicable Of experiences. And
there's map. One mustn't forget
TO commend the presence of this
essential feature. Any writer who
offers travel book without map
OF the subject is guilty of d mis-
demeanor that may. and should. be
reflected in the returns from thaa
book.
The face of the country itself: the
appearance Of the people: the cities
with their narrow streets and Oriental
baZaarS and curious architecture: the
customs, civil and religious; the in.
dustrics: the social grades the fanatic
strain against outsiders prevailing in
every ClaSs-these are given here in
Il swlft.moving picture whose snappv
legends hll the book with fresh in.
formation and with the very spirit OF
the life that through long ages has
shaped itself upon the necessity for a
complete self-containment. Certainly
the one who wrote this book is the
very one who wrote With Lawrence
IN Arabia. You may miss Lawrence
himself but nothing else.
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ON THE ROOF OF THE ROCKIES.
Lewis K. Freeman. Dodd Mead
~ 60.
An expedition To the Alps of North
America. to the great Columbia ice
field of the Canadian Rockies-this
PROVIDES the substance Of Lewis Free
man ; absorbing account. Without
thinking we. the average, have a way
oi combining To Il single F,uropean
group the term Alps" forgetting
that America. too. has its Alps. or
nigh mountains And right here is
an excellent opportunity TO find out
what our homegrown variety of Alps
really is. MISUNDERSTANDING less,
Lofty peaks. fields of them. mighty
glaciers. numberless mountain lakes
waterfalls leapinS hundreds of feet
INTO the foaminc depths below. Every.
! thing on the grand scale here, mag.
nlfcent and tremendously impressive.
On the human side of the venture
there is the hardest of hard work
climbing, fordinS, swimming and Just
ploWlnS along. Two men are the
leaders-Mr. Freeman and Byron Har.
mon. picture man. 4 pack train and
guides make UP the rest of the party
To study these gigantic formations
and To get pictures-suCh is the OBJ
lect Of the enterprise. The reader s
part in 1t is highly informing and
deeply interesting travel book by wav
of which he again comes into con.
seriousness of some of the natural
wonders that lie waiting on this con.
tlnent for the student and the tourist
This book is as rich in picture as il
Is in story. Indeed. hardly will Won
come across such fine and beautiful
, illustrations as YOU will see here The
chronicle itself is a plain one 1t
would have been a hardy person. one
who would attempt fine writing, or