A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer

by Pierre Mac Orlan

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A how-to manual for the armchair adventurer

Pierre Mac Orlan's 1920 Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer was at once a paean to the adventure story, a tongue-in-cheek guidebook to the genre's real-life practitioners and a grim if unspoken coda to the disasters of World War I. "It must be established as a law that adventure in itself does not exist," Mac Orlan stipulates. "Adventure is in the mind of the one who pursues...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1939663008

ISBN13:9781939663009

Release Date:January 1

Publisher:Wakefield Press

Length:104 Pages

Weight:0.35 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 4.6" x 7.0"

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