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A hobby using crystal radio sets leads Tom Pauling and his friends into a world of danger and espionage. First of the Radio Detectives series. (Originally published in 1922.)

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Excerpt from The Radio DetectivesBeing of a naturally inventive and mechanical mind and remembering his father's advice to try to improve matters, he spent all his spare time studying the radio magazines, haunting the stores where radio supplies and instruments were sold and arguing about and discussing various devices and sets with his boy friends. Hardly a day passed that he did not arrive at his home carrying some mysterious package or bund...

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Excerpt from Rivers and Their Mysteries Skates or ¿ying ice-boat. Even those poor nu fortunate mortals who have no imagination and no romance in their makeup, who can see. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the w...

Excerpt from Islands and Their MysteriesOr is the island what the geologists call con structional, a gain rather than a relic, something on the plus Side And if so, is it part of a sub marine mountain chain that has been raised above the surface of the water, or is it the top of a submarine volcano, or is it a coral growth on the shoulders of either of these, or is it a deposit at a river mouth The destructional islands are mostly isolated par...

Excerpt from The Ocean and Its Mysteries The ocean, that vast, restless expanse of water which covers three-fourths of our earth's sur face, has ever been an interesting theme, a thing of wonder, romance and mystery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-...

Excerpt from The Book of the Sailboat: How to Rig, Sail and Handle Small Boats In the South Seas and other places the natives still use catamarans and proas which are really nothing but two logs fastened together, and yet the most efficient and safest of life rafts used by our greatest steam ships are merely modifications of these same cata marans. The purpose of any boat is to ¿oat and support its occupants while traveling across the water,...

Excerpt from Isles of Spice and Palm Five days' sail from New York lie these islands of perpetual summer, lands where luscious fruits and gorgeous flowers may be gathered throughout the year, where feathery palms wave in the trade wind above surf-washed, coral beaches, where lofty mountains rise, forest-clad, to the drifting clouds, and where worry, care and hurry are unknown. Why the American public has failed to appreciate the attractions o...

This early work by A. Hyatt Verrill was originally published in 1929 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'Vampires of the Desert' is a short story about a paleontologist that discovers an mysterious ancient creature that was sucking the blood from its victims. Alpheus Hyatt Verrill was born in 1871. A graduate of Yale University, he wrote on a variety of topics, r...

Excerpt from Getting Together With Latin America In preparing this book no attempt has been made to go into all the details of Latin American trade, and other conditions, or to prepare a complete and analytical treatise on our past, present and future relations with the republics of South and Central America. To do that would require not one, but many, volumes, each far more comprehensive than the present work, for an entire book might be dev...

Excerpt from The Amateur Carpenter OF all branches of manual training there is none more generally useful than carpentry. A knowl edge of how to use carpenter's tools properly and how to make simple articles from lumber will never come amiss, and there is scarcely a man, woman or boy who at one time or another has not had occasion to use some sort of carpenter's tool. It may seem a very simple matter to use a saw, hammer, screw-driver or othe...

Excerpt from South and Central American Trade Conditions of Today: New and Revised Edition With Complete Information to 1919 This little book is intended as a handbook for all those interested in the question of South American, or more properly Latin-American, trade. It is not a book of travel, of history, of political or economic conditions, nor of descriptions of places and people, but a volume dealing with hard, cold facts, all of which ar...

Excerpt from Gasolene Engines: Their Operation, Use and Care, A Comprehensive, Simple and Practical Work Appreciating the value of illustrations as an aid to text description, the author has endeavored to figure each and every part and feature treated in the work, and in order to make the illustrations more plain and understandable every part or portion not directly related to the point under discussion has been eliminated in the figures. Ab...

Excerpt from In the Wake of the Buccaneers There is no more entrancing body of water in either the Western or the Eastern Hemisphere - than the Caribbean Sea, with a fringe of lovely tropical islands on the one side and on the other the Spanish Main and its picturesque centuries-old towns and fascinating sights. Aside from its beauty, its delightful climate, and its ever-shifting scenes, the Caribbean and its shores are redolent of romance. I...

Excerpt from Past and Present: Revised Edition With 1919 Facts and Figures With the expulsion of the Spaniards and the end of the Spanish dominion in Cuba the Island rapidly improved, and under American rule and later its own Republican administration, Cuba's popularity increased until at the present time it is one of the greatest of Winter resorts in the Western Hemisphere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousand...

Excerpt from The Book of the West Indies Stretching in a vast semicircle, from Florida to the tip of South America, lies the archipelago known as the West Indies. With marvelous climate, their shores washed by the bluest of blue seas, ever swept by the re freshing trade winds, luxuriant beyond words, inexpressibly beautiful, and varying in character from awe-inspiring, rugged masses of mile-high mountains to low-lying sandy cays, the West In...