Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
and voyages by land and sea, today and
yesterday:
On the High Seas.

ana voyages py lano ana sea- To-Day ana
yesterday:
On the High Seas.
Vignettes Of the Sea, by Felix Riesen-
berg. 1925. G12.R447v.
Here is the humanest book we have
met for quite a while. A book to be
picked up and read for 10 minutes or
to be browsed right through from cover
to cover all in one night. Excellent
for artist, tramp or business man." Bill
Adams.
John Cameron's Odyssey. transcribed
by Andrew Farrell. 1928. Gl2Cl43.
There Is the flavor Of extremely
salty seas in this book. Particularly
vivid are the pictures of the old Pacific.
Here are the South Sea Islands long
before the colorful Frederick O'Brien
discovered them, before Robert Louis
Stevenson went to live at Vailima."
A. b. Maurice.
Sea- lore, by S. r. H. Rogers. 1929.
Gl2.R63
His pages are lucky tub, into which
you cannot dip without fishing up some
| Jolly yarn about exploration, or whal-
ing, or lost ships and lost treasures,
some interesting bit of information
about sea customs and superstitions, or
some out-of-Uhe- technicality."
On the High Seas. by E. K. Chatterton.
1929. Gl2C39o.
"Comdr. Chattertons seagoing med
ley Is good reading for those
who have tasted, in fact or Imagination
the hazards of service in ships. What
we have is episodes Of life at sea
through three centuries. assembled
without much order or other bond Of
relation than the sea itself"
Atlantic Circle. by Leonard Cultivate.
Ontoo
"At the end of June, 1929, Mr.. and
Mrs. Cultivate set out from New York
City in small schooner, the Kinka-
| jou, II feet on the water line, to cir
cumnavigate the Atlantic Ocean. In
this book the author tells the full story
of the voyage that, with various short
or long stops, consumed a year. COW
cred $4,000 miles and touched four
continents"
VoyagerS Unafraid by I. w. Anthony.
1890 G12An88
Short accounts Of the courageous. II
somewhat foolhardy. Adventures who
have crossed the Atlantic single ha nded
in small boats
Doubloons: the Story of Buried Treas
ure, by c. B. Driscoll. 1880
There have been other books on
buried and hidden treasure, but Dris-
coils is the giant to date. There re-
mains only one chapter to complete it.
one on the search for Inca treasure in
! the Andes Mr. Driscoll has flung
open a door to the hall of imagination
I He has written a pirate book which is
rare because not infantile." c. ]. Finger.
Around the World.
A Landlubber's Log; Around the World
as Sailor and Tramp, by Arthur
| Warner. 1880. G13W24.
Mr.. Warner possesses a sharp eye
for characterization and description and
exhibits a deep. unalloyed love Of life.
The result is a book that convinces the
reader of its authenticity from the first
/ page to the last There is nothing over
drawn or overreached here. "A
Landlubber's Log is really an account
OF the actual realization OF the dream
OF wandering that obsesses every adven-
turous youth who has heard Of the sea-"
= Herbert German.
Vagabond de Luxe. by John Marshall
1880. Gl2M354v.
The gay account of college boys
70000-mile journey around the world
as a Supertramp. His ups and downs,
now in. now out of funds now almost
faced with starvation, now surrounded
! by luxury, cover many places and ad-
ventures, starting with a hitch-hike
across the Southwestern States through
civil war in China. to Soviet Russia and
home as scullion on a transatlantic
liner.
People and Places. by Douglas Goldring.
1929 Gl2.G 565p.
Here is record of a gallant attempt
to plunge headforemost and completely,
if for very short time. into various
not too visited places, and for the dura-
ton of the visit to become as closely
identified with the country as is al