Author(s): W.E. Johns

Children's Books

Perhaps the many Biggles readers have wondered how Captain Johns manages to closely follow his hero's breathtaking career and to write everything down on paper in such detail. We do not know whether the writer was indeed pressed for time. In any case, in this book we find nine important achievements of Major Biggleworth briefly recorded. Nine adventures from which Biggles naturally emerges victorious. This would not be so obvious if Biggles did not have the qualities that he possesses: courage, perseverance, ingenuity, sharpness of mind and, above all, energy. Energy to stand up against crime and injustice every time someone calls for his help, no matter where on earth he has to go. This time we meet Biggles in Africa, France, India and Malacca, among others, poking his nose into cases that have only two things in common: they could not stand the light of day and they were helped out of the world by Biggles' intervention. Otherwise they were very different and once again proved Biggles' proverbial versatility

Second-Hand. Some ripping on dust jacket. Slight spotting on page edges.