First Aid for Backpackers and Campers

Lowell, Thomas

Henry Holt & Company, Inc.

Jack Girsham is a legendary figure in his native Burma an din the neighboring Indian province of Assam. In his long career as a game ranger and jungle man, Jack has faced every kind of danger, from rogue elephants and man-eating tigers to enemy commandos during World War II.  This book is Burma Jack's own story, as told to and edited by another great adventurer, Lowell Thomas.Born of an English father and a Burmese mother, Jack has witnessed the slow transformation of India and Burma from pillars of Empire to independent nations. But the heart of this story is Jack's experience in another country: the dim, mysterious, vanishing jungle of Southeast Asia.At twelve Jack was stalking marsh fowl in the Burmese hills around Maymyo. At twenty he was riding log rafts from the teak forests down the Irrawaddy to the Bay of Bengal.  These experiences prepared Jack for his encounters with dangerous game, for as he explains it: You didn't become a big game hunter in Burma just by going out into the jungle with a heavy rifle...You had to have a feeling for the place and the people and the animals. You had to known how to live off the land for weeks on end...In short, you had to know Burma."Jack's narrative is a superb collection of authentic adventure stories. His perilous encounters with tigers, boards, and cobras are all the more impressive in that no effort is made to embellish the plain facts.

Burma Jack

Jack Girsham

Norton

<p>A racy biography, as told to Lowell Thomas by the storm center of the Marines, Smedley Butler, the fighting Quaker. Enormously entertaining, swift moving adventure, a birdseye view of various ""fronts"" in our marine history, from the Spanish War through the World War, interspersed with South American cival warfare, Central American fracas, riots in Panama, storm clouds in Mexico, thirty three years of service, culminating with the directorate of Public Safety in Philadelphia.</p>

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1928. This best seller by internationally renowned journalist Lowell Thomas was the first American account of German submariners to offer a sympathetic, behind-the-scenes look at the men who prowled the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and English Channel in U-boats. Widely known for his radio and newspaper dispatches from World War I battlefields, Thomas was immediately successful with this vivid portrait of undersea warfare that included details of the new technology. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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Tex O'Reilly Born to Raise Hell

<p>Tex O'Reilly should not have lived long enough to tell this tale! He had, after all, been shot at by tribesmen, mercenaries and jealous husbands for nearly forty years when he dictated his life story in the 1920s to famed journalist, Lowell Thomas. O'Reilly's colorful story began with the American Rough Riders. He fought beside Teddy Roosevelt and his Volunteers as they stormed San Juan hill in 1889. Yet that conflict only served as a finishing school for O'Reilly's warlike tendencies. He next shipped out to the Philippines. There he spent several years tracking down Moro Muslim rebels in the jungles. After mastering the art of jungle warfare it was on to the Orient. There he raised more hell and killed more men, only now he had left the American colors behind and become a soldier for hire. And hired he was, by a host of nations and a league of leaders, all eager to look the other way, and give the infamous Irish-American mercenary a free hand. O'Reilly battled the Boxers in China and fought his way through Japan, and finally headed the bodyguard for the Emperor of Korea. Then it was on to Mexico, where he fought with Pancho Villa, and down to South America where he knocked down rulers or put them in place for a price. When he got tired of the Americas, the brawler headed for Africa, this time to lead the Spanish Foreign Legion against Moroccan rebels. In short, no government was safe if the legendary Irishman fought against it. Thus "Born to Raise Hell" cannot be described by any word other than "Amazing!" Every chapter reveals a more unbelievable story. Every page threatens to burn the reader's hands with excitement. If ever a book was written that completely, and truthfully, told the story of the nineteenth century fighting man, this is it!</p>

Tex O'Reilly: Born to Raise Hell

Tex O'Reilly

Long Riders' Guild Press

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