Word: traprock
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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When the last outline of history is written, the chapter on exploration will owe much of its material to the deeds of men inspired by Jack London and by the famous Traprock, skipper of the good ship, "Kawa." Only a few weeks ago a Frenchman sailed across the Atlantic in a thirty-foot sloop, inspired, as he said, by London's "Cruise of the Shark," and unconsciously perhaps by the romantic voyage of the Kawa into the South Seas. And now three more intrepid spirits, two of them graduates of the University, are planning a trip to the fever-haunted...
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...