<p>Ctft For JIM HUDELSON Grateful acknowledgment is made to The Crcnvell-Collier Publishing Company for permission to reprint certain sections of this book, which first appeared in Colliers Magazine. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I The Invasion That Failed i II Our Unknown Front 31 III Mission Over Kiska 44 IV Three Stories 55 V Landbridge 88 VI Mummies, Volcanoes, Sea-Otters 102 VII They Came to Attu 1 22 VIII We Even Had a Tree ... 130 IX A Postscript 137 Cut . Jke MtVadion, Jkai halted History can turn on a very small hinge. The history of Alaska, and perhaps the history of the American continent, swung last June on a little handful of land based fighter-planes and bombers, appearing out of nowhere in the swirling Aleutian fog. . . . For the Japs were planning more than the capture o Dutch Harbor, on that fateful third of June. There is little doubt now that their grandiose scheme envisioned an actual assault, by way of Alaska, on our Pacific north west. The Japs wanted and, make no mistake about it, they still want to set foot on United States soil some day. It is more than a matter of military strategy it is an emotional desire, a deep-seated and fanatic ambition that colors all their national thinking. And our appar ently undefended Aleutians, which had served in pre historic times as a land-bridge for invading hordes from Asia, offered once again a logical avenue of invasion for these modern barbarians striking at our shores. It was to be part of a full-scale offensive in the Pacific. The Japs had devised a two-pronged attack a sort of one-two punch, a left jab at the Aleutians and a right cross to Midway. The blow in the north would fall first on Dutch Harbor. The Japs knewthey had not been SHORT CUT TO TOKYO poaching in the Aleutians all these years for nothing that our only shipping-route to Nome, to Bethel, to the whole west coast of Alaska, was through narrow Unimak Pass, between Unimak and Unalaska Islands. By taking Dutch Harbor, which dominated the pass, they could effectively bottle up half of Alaska. They could drive a thousand-mile wedge between the United States and Russia, thus cutting off any possible sea-lane for shipping supplies to Siberia, and at the same time protecting their own right flank from attack in the event of a Siberian offensive. Last but not least, they could operate against Midway and die Hawaiian Archipelago, as well as against the Gulf of Alaska to the east. It looked easy absurdly easy. They had been told that Dutch Harbor was our only fortified position in the whole thousand-mile Aleutian chain. The base was still partly under construction, garrisoned at the time by not more than a couple of regiments of ill-equipped and winter-weary troops and a few gallant Marines, de fended by a meager battery of guns After knocking this ripe plum from the tree, they were confident they could seize the Pribilofs to the north, attempt a mass landing on the Seward Peninsula and a penetra tion into the heart of Alaska. Or they could pick off Kodiak and then Sitka and Ketchikan and from Alaskas southeastern tip it was only six hundred miles, 1 L if u., mi</p>

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Ford, Corey

History

Speath Press

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Under a Lucky Star - A Lifetime of Adventure

ANDREWS, ROY CHAPMAN

Biographies & Memoirs

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Sterling, George

Dramas & Plays

Under a Lucky Star A Lifetime of Adventure by ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS.Contents include: Chapter i Adventure Comes Early 1 1 2 I Meet a Whale 2 1 3 Submarine Courtship 32 4 Muscles and Murderers 40 5 Yokohamas Yoshiwara 50 6 Robinson Crusoes Isle 60 7 Typhoon 69 8 Yesterday in Japan 79 9 Strictly Personal Explorations 93 10 - Korean Devilfish and Killers 101 1 1 The Long White Mountain 1 09 12 A Harem on the Rocks 119 1 3 The Blue Tiger 126 1 4 Yunnan Adventures 135 15 Wartime Interlude 146 16 Dog Eats Man 158 1 7 Wall Street Ramblings 1 66 1 8 My Peking Palace 179 19 Marching Sands of the Gobi 185 20 The Emperors Bride 198 2 1 Where the Dinosaur Laid Her Eggs 210 8 CONTENTS Chapter 22 The Valley of the Jewels 217 2 3 The Great Dinosaur Egg Auction 225 2 4 Desert Dune Dwellers 235 25 Motoring Through a War 242 2 6 Politics and Palaeontology 251 27 Fate Takes a Hand 261 2 8 Dangling in the Depths 2 74 29 A Square Peg in a Round Hole 287 30 Berkshire Paradise 294. CHAPTER ONE. Adventure Comes Early. OFTEN I have had to sit on a lecture platform when I was going to speak, and listen to a long introduction. It bored me stiff and likewise the audience. I wanted to get at the business in hand and the job I came for. Thats the way I feel about this book. It is the story of a life in which I have had a lot of fun and excitement. So Tin going to begin the tale as quickly as possible without going back into an account of my ancestry and f amily Apropos of which George Putnam quotes the remark of a visiting author to his uncle Major Putnam, die matter of ancestry is all very interesting. Only, the present is so much more important than the past. I always think people who are too much concerned with the pedigree of their fore fathers are apt to be like potatoes the best part of them is underground. Of my early days there will be just enough to give a back ground for what follows. I dont think anyone except myself would give a tinkers damn about those boyhood years. As a rule, nothing of much interest happens to a young man until he is out of college. One chapter ought to suffice for the essential preliminaries. I was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, at approximately two oclock in the morning of January 26, 1884, when the temperature was thirty degrees below zero. I am told that my eyes were so slanted that when Father first looked at me he said, Why, Ive begot a Chinaman That remark was current in our family long before, in later life, I went to China to live for eighteen years. Beloit lay on the banks of the Rock River in a part of south ern Wisconsin that was all fields and woods and rushing streams. I was like a rabbit, happy only when I could run out of doors. To stay in the house was torture to me then, and it has been ever since. Whatever the weather, in sun or rain, calm or storm, day or night, I was outside, unless my parents almost literally locked me in. The greatest event of my early life was when, on my ninth birthday, Father gave me a little single-barrel shotgun. Previous to this I had been allowed to shoot Grandfathers muzzle loader once or twice, but it was too much f pr me to negotiate with its forty-inch-long barrel. It was with that little gun that I literally blew up my first wild goose. I was hunting just at dusk on the edge of a marsh north of Beloit. Six magnificent wild geese floating on a tiny patch of water showed up against the sunset sky. To stalk them, I had to crawl for nearly half a mile in mud and water, mostly on my stomach. Finally, I was near enough to shoot. At the roar of my gun, the three geese slowly collapsed with a gentle hissing sound, and out of a clump of bushes jumped Fred Fenton, a local sportsman. The sounds Fred made were far from gentle hissings...

This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on enamelling metal, with interesting historical information, simple instructions, comprehensive explanations, helpful tips, and more. It was originally designed for artists, art connoisseurs, and young art students who enjoy enamelling and know something of its basics. Although old, “The Art Of Enameling Upon Metal” contains a wealth of timeless information that will be of considerable utility to modern readers with a practical interest in the subject. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction. This book was first published in 1906.

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"The History and Design of the Violin Bow" is a collection of vintage articles on the subject of the violin, with a particular focus on the bridge. The articles explore a range of topics from the history and origins of the violin to notable makers and players, the evolution of designs, and much more. This book will appeal to violin players and those with an interest in the history of this ancient instrument. Contents include: "Bow Instruments - Their Form and Construction, by J. W. Giltay", "A Review of Ancient and Modern violin Making, by W. W. Oakes", and "British Violin-Makers - Classical and Modern, by Wm. Meredith Morris". Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of the violin.

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