Horizon Fever
Author : Robert Dunn
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 1932
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Author : Robert Dunn
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 1932
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Author : Robert DUNN (Explorer.)
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Page : 358 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 1932
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Author : Archibald Edmund Filby
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : 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 He died before I was born, but his unpublished manuscript, 'Horizon Fever', and many scrapbooks, survived.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 : A E Filby
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : 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
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Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 2021-05-15
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ISBN : 9781922476401
Proclaimed "the World's most travelled motorist", AE Filby undertook some breathtaking expeditions, including his 37,000-mile journey through Africa in a series of dilapidated motorcars.
Author : Archibald Edmund Filby
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Page : 228 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2021-05-15
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ISBN : 9781922476395
Proclaimed "the World's most travelled motorist", AE Filby undertook some breathtaking expeditions, including his 37,000-mile journey through Africa in a series of dilapidated motorcars.
Author : Archibald Edmund Filby
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
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 : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : 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 : A. Filby
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 2015-09-06
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ISBN : 9781517220921
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 "the World's most travelled motorist", 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, 80 years after it was completed. Victoria Twead, 2012
Author : A E Filby
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 2019-06-27
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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.