QUEST AND CONQUEST: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ADVENTURES - Various

Hard cover.
Gilded letters on spine.
Very good condition.
Literature.
English language.
Anthology of exciting short stories of adventure by various authors.
Title: 
QUEST AND CONQUEST
AN ANTHOLOGY OF PERSONAL ADVENTURES
Compiled by: E. V. ODLE
Publisher: MACMILLAN & CO LTD
Year of publish: 1953
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
Pages: 232
Dimensions: 18 x 11,5 cm
CONTENTS:
TRAVEL AND DISCOVERY
- THE FINDING OF THE TOMB OF TUT-ANKH-AMEN - Howard Carter
- A CARAVAN JOURNEY THROUGH UNEXPLORED TIBET - Sven Hedin
- ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD - Captain George Finch
- THE GOOD SHEYKH - Charles M. Doughty
- THE DASH FOR THE POLE - Captain Robert Falcon Scott
WAR
- A WAR CORRESPONDENT IN GREECE - Henry W. Nevinson
- THE ARMOURED TRAIN - Winston Churchill
- MY FIRST FIGHT WITH THE FOREIGN LEGION - P. C. Wren
- MY ESCAPE FROM A TURKISH PRISON - F. Yeats-Brown
THE PIONEERING INSTINCT AND SCIENTIFIC ENTERPRISE
- A VISION - Kingsley Fairbridge
- FLIGHT HOME FROM AUSTRALIA - Sir Alan Cobham
- A DESCENT TO DAVY JONES' LOCKER - Dr. William Beebe
- RECORD "GLIDES" IN A MOTORLESS AEROPLANE - Robert Kronfeld
- ON BEING ONE'S OWN RABBIT - J. B. S. Haldane
- MY SCHOOLDAYS - George Lansbury
- HOW I SENSE THE WORLD - Hellen Keller
- A SIGNATURE ON THE CANADIAN PRAIRIE - A. G. Street
ON THE ROAD, BY SEA, AND IN THE ARENA
- ON THE ROAD WITH "PROFESSIONALS" - W. H. Davies
- ACROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN IN A SMALL SAILING BOAT - W. A. Robinson
- MY FIRST SALVAGE CASE - Desmond Young
- "THE LIONS ARE LOOSE!" - Lord George Sanger
- MY FIGHT WITH BOMBARDIER WELLS - Georges Carpentier
- PHOTOGRAPHING LIONS BY FLASHLIGHT - A. Radclyffe Dugmore
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