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Author | : A E Filby |
Publisher | : eBook Partnership |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2021-07-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1922476463 |
Even before Archibald Edmund Filby (Victoria Twead's roguish uncle) embarked on his famous African expeditions, he took advantage of a government-sponsored scheme to migrate to Australia. It was 1921 and his daredevil nature soon had him performing reckless feats as a buckjumper in a popular circus rodeo.Whilst trekking through this vast continent, he embraced the opportunity to become a jockey, photographer, actor, pilot, car salesman and pearl diver. But Australia was just a stepping stone for Archie to explore many other colourful far-eastern countries including India, Singapore, Borneo, Java and China. Horizon Fever II covers explorer A E Filby's early years and his descriptions, although utterly fascinating, sometimes make uncomfortable reading.
Author | : Archibald Edmund Filby |
Publisher | : eBook Partnership |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2021-07-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1922476455 |
Not only was A E Filby a famous British explorer, but he was also my Uncle Archie. He died before I was born, but his unpublished manuscript, 'Horizon Fever', and many scrapbooks, survived. Proclaimed "e;the World's most travelled motorist"e;, A E Filby undertook some breathtaking expeditions, including his 37,000-mile journey from London to Cape Town and back in a series of dilapidated motorcars.Horizon Fever is an honest, colourful, often shocking account; a snapshot of bygone days and attitudes. It tells of missionaries, pygmies, big-game hunting, gold mining, crossing the Sahara and swimming in the Nile with crocodiles. One of Archie's companions was a monkey called Congo. Another was a dog that adopted him, until it was killed and dragged up a tree by a leopard. Archie himself comes across as a courageous, feisty, quick-tempered, bossy little man, but full of fun, generous and never one to bear a grudge.Thanks to Archie's records and photographs, we have a unique glimpse of an astonishing feat of endurance, nearly 100 years after it was completed. --Victoria Twead
Author | : Robert Dunn |
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Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1932 |
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Author | : Robert DUNN (Explorer.) |
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Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1932 |
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Author | : A E Filby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2021-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781922476296 |
It was 1921 and Victoria Twead's roguish explorer uncle migrated to Australia. There, his daredevil nature saw him performing reckless feats as a buckjumper in a popular circus rodeo before trekking through this vast continent.
Author | : Archibald Edmund Filby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2021-05-15 |
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ISBN | : 9781922476432 |
In 1921 Victoria Twead's roguish explorer uncle migrated to Australia. There, his daredevil nature saw him performing reckless feats as a buckjumper in a popular circus rodeo before trekking through this vast continent.
Author | : A E Filby |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2019-06-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781074894955 |
Even before Archibald Edmund Filby embarked on his famous African expeditions, he took advantage of a government-sponsored scheme to migrate to Australia. It was 1921 and his daredevil nature soon had him performing reckless feats as a buckjumper in a popular circus rodeo. Whilst trekking through this vast continent, he embraced the opportunity to become a jockey, photographer, actor, pilot, car-salesman and pearl diver.Horizon Fever II covers explorer A E Filby's early years and his descriptions, although utterly fascinating, sometimes make uncomfortable reading.
Author | : Frederik Pohl |
Publisher | : Orb Books |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2013-11-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466806354 |
Frederik Pohl was on a streak when this Hugo Award–finalist novel was published in 1980. Now back in print after an absence of nearly a decade, this unique science fiction novel is as fresh and entertaining as ever. The story begins when the hero of Gateway finances an expedition to a distant alien spaceship that may end famine forever. On the ship, the explorers find a human boy, and evidence that reveals a powerful alien civilization is thriving on a transport ship headed right for Earth.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : Noah Webster |
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Total Pages | : 1054 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Victoria Twead |
Publisher | : Ant Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : Travel |
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