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Bob Blake's love of roaming and writing was one of the

reasons he seized the offer of a regular commissionand a

chance to see the worldwith the Marines in World War II.

He was awarded the Silver Star and took over the command

of the Ninth Tank Platoon in the Pacific before being recalled

to Headquarters in Washington to turn out action reports. One

such report was published in the Saturday Evening Post in

1944. Bored with inaction he transferred to Marine Aviation,

got his wings, and then had to face law school. It is at this

point that I'LL TAKE THE HIGH ROAD begins, and also the

adventures which are the life and blood of this book.


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$3.75

BobBLAKEayoungex-Marnehas

one what most people only dream of

doing. One fine spring morning, looking out

of his classroom window across the Harvard

Yard, he slammed down his law books,

kicked over the traces, and set out on a

r o u n d - t h e - w o r l d a d v e n t u r e , i ' i . l t a k e t h e

HIGH ROAD is his story of the sixteen action-

packed months that followed.

With only enough money to get to New

York, Blake landed a job as seaman on the

Greek tramp S.S. Odi'ssey. After storming

the Acropolis and Mt. Olympus, where he

fell in with guerrillas, he picked up Alexan

der the Great's route of conquest through

the fabled Middle East. Along the way he

scaled the dome of Santa Sophia at midnight,

pried into the secrets of the ancient, long-lost

city of Petra, and searched out the mysteries

of the haunted Valley of the Assassins.

Nishapur, the city of Omar Khayyam,

Baghdad, and Srinagar arc a few of the

magic cities Blake describes. His story cap

tures the thrill of houseboating in Kashmir,

of crossing the Khyber Pass, of circling Mt.

Everest, of hitch-hiking on the Road to

Mandalay, and crossing China in a jeep

called The Reluctant Dragon.

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R O M E

Portrait of the Eternal City

Edited by Giuseppe Prezzolini and

Ernes t Nash

A bea u t i f u l book th a t com b i nes 171 r i ch

photographs of the city with an engaging

text that is hoth poetic and scholarly.

Saturday Review of Literature. Bound in

blue cloth, stamped with genuine gold.

$2.95 (was $6.50)

P A R I S I S A N I C E D I S H

by Osborne Putnam Stearns

Illustrated hy Franklin McMahon

Osborne Putnam Stearns has delightfully

blended a brief guide book of Paris, a sketchy

history of the city and some of its restaurants,

and a cookbook. Stearns writes even better

than he broadcasts over the radio, which he

has done for 20 years as the Food Magician,

and his book is difficult to lay down, whether

you are reading for profit or pleasure. . . .

This book has exceeded my expectations. 1

found myself being led thru many of the

interesting streets of Paris, particularly the

side streets, and into some of the out-of-

the-way places that are seldom discovered

by tourists. Morrison Wood, Chicago

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