Gimlet Off the Map (Gimlet #8)
Book Details
| Title: | Gimlet Off the Map (Gimlet #8) | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1951 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | The Brockhampton Press Ltd. | ||||||||||
| Tags: | adventure, Caribbean Sea, fiction | ||||||||||
| Description: | This story starts with our usual four heroes travelling by canoe deep into the forest of Central America in British Honduras. Gimlet has been entrusted with a mission by the Colonial Office to investigate an attack on a professional orchid collector named Banford and his native porters. After weeks of travel our heroes arrive at a deserted Indian village, the scene of the attack. Our heroes led by their chief native guide, Jose, set out to find the jungle trail that had been followed by their predecessors. They come across a small hill, some two hundred feet high, and believe they have arrived at the ruined city of Uazatikel. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 446 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 115  |
Author Bio for Johns, W. E. (William Earl)
William Earl Johns (1893-1968), better known as Capt. W. E. Johns, was a British author noted for his juvenile fiction featuring stories about pilots and flying. Johns first career was as a sanitary inspector but he soon gave it up to enlist in the army at the beginning of World War I. He saw action during the Gallipoli Campaign and also served garrison duty in Egypt. Afterwards he applied to serve in the Royal Flying Corps. He was posted to a flying school in England where he trained pilots. In the 1930s he began to write fiction basing his stories on his flying experience. All told he wrote over 150 novels and short stories for young boys and girls. (wejohns.com)
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