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Some enterprising journalist invited Dr. Walter E. Traprock, F. R. S., S. E. U., lecturer and author of The Cruise of the Kawa, My Northern Exposure and Sarah of the Sahara, to investigate Teapot Dome. The obliging doctor is producing a series of articles which are being syndicated for the press by Hol-Nord Features. The articles are in the form of regular news stories, under Washington date line, and contain everything but a shadow of truth...
SARAH OP THE SAHARA-Walter E. Traprock - Putnam ($2.50). Dr. Traprock, discoverer of the fatu-liva bird and hero of My Northern Exposure, plunges into the passionate sands of the land of the Twin-Bedouins in search of love, adventure and the tomb of Dimitrino the First. His romance with Lady Sarah Wimpole burns like an incandescent lamp. Lions, sheiks and whiffle-hens bar his way, and after quite unbelievable exploits he is left alone with his memories. A take-off on the popular Sheik brand of fiction, adequately mirth-provoking though not quite so good as The Cruise...
...lofty way back from a two-day cruise over the Sahara, the Dixmude met a hurricane above Sardinia?so circled back to the African coast. Next day Sardinia and Corsica passed beneath her. At seven the following morning she hovered over Paris, then dropped a wreath on the monument at Moulins to the victims of the dirigible Republique's crash some years ago, swung back to the Riviera and landed in front of her hangar near Marseilles at the dawn of her fifth day of flight...
...poet. Two of the scenes exist only in the minds of some of the dramatis personae. A brilliant, interesting, witty experiment. THE DESERT HEALER-E. M. Hull -Small Maynard ($2.00). Sir Gervas Carew was a misogynist. His wife had run off with another, so he straightway went to the Sahara and became a sheik-El Hakim-or (in English) M. D. His path crossed that of Marny, Lady Geraldine. Her husband was a perfect brute, but she was loyal. Ensued sandstorms, struggles with Arab assassins, lots of noble self-sacrifice, wads of local color. "And with a little...
...heart of the Sahara Buchanan suffered internal injuries owing to a fall. Carried 50 miles to a French outpost by natives, he was cured by a doctor in Algiers through the medium of wireless...