Ken Ward In The Jungle

New York, New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1912. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 309 pages: 5.5 x 7.75 in.: 1.2: KB#017591: Bookjacket / dustjacket now protected by a New Brodart Mylar Cover. Bookjacket is complete but has some small edge cuts or ruffling. Bright Orange Boards, with Black Embossed jungle scene and lettering on front and spine, and pages are clean, unmarked (except for prior owner's bookplate at top of front flyleaf, and name at top of inside front cover), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "It was indeed a change for Ken Ward, young forester, pitcher of the varsity nine at school, and hunter of lions in the Arizona canons. Here he was entering the jungle of the tropics. The rifles and the camp outfit on the seat beside his brother Hal and himself spoke of coming adventures. Before them lay an unknown wilderness--the semi-tropical jungle. And the future was to show that the mystery of the jungle was stranger even than their imaginings. It was not love of adventure alone or interest in the strange new forest growths that had drawn Ken to the jungle. His uncle, the one who had gotten Ken letters from the Forestry Department at Washington, had been proud of Ken's Arizona achievements. This uncle was a member of the American Geographical Society and a fellow of the New York Museum of Natural History. He wanted Ken to try his hand at field work in the jungle of Mexico, and if that was successful, then to explore the ruined cities of wild Yucatan. If Ken made good as an explorer his reward was to be a trip to Equatorial Africa after big game. And of course that trip meant opportunity to see England and France, and, what meant more to Ken, a chance to see the great forests of Germany, where forestry had been carried on for three hundred years." .