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...Adventure tells of a flight across the Sahara, from Paris to Timbuctoo and back. Seabrook wanted to go to Timbuctoo to see Pére Yakouba. famed renegade French priest (their first meeting is described in Jungle Ways). Flight Captain Rene Wauthier of the French Army, then on furlough, offered to fly him there in his plane. Third member of the party was Marjorie Worthington, U. S. writer. In luxurious comfort they slid down across France, bumped over the Pyrenees, skimmed the Mediterranean. North Africa looked much like southern France. Then the Sahara began. Crossing the Sahara nowadays...
...sunlight again. Seabrook called on Pére Yakouba, quickly finished his business, then plunged into Timbuctoo night life. Very soon all three decided the social pace there was too fast for them, moved on to get away from cocktails and all-night parties. On their leisurely way back Wauthier and Seabrook joined in a hunt for missing French airmen, Companion Worthington was temporarily lost crossing the Sahara in a motor truck, but they all left Africa together, flew home safe & sound...
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