lure of danger: true adventure stories.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Published: 1947
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Table of contents: title: J.D. Craig.  The philosophy of danger.; title: H.W. Lanier and Victor Herge.  The terror of the deep.; title: Tom Eadie.  The story of Michels.; title: Edward Ellsberg.  The Laurentic yields her gold.; title: Charles Courtney.  Kitchener's gold.; title: Harold Kelleck.  Escape artist and master magician.; title: T.J. Waldeck.  On safari.; title: I.T. Sanderson.  The cave of the bats.; title: Carl Akeley.  Elephant.; title: Frank Buck.  Tapir on a rampage.; title: R.L. Ditmars.  Buying dynamite.; title: C.R. Cooper.  Cap Ricardo speaks.; title: Edwin Muller, jr.  The great climb.; title: J.R. Ullman.  Summit of the world: the fight for Everest.; title: Wolfgang Langewiesche.  Knapsack of salvation.