Twenty-Five True Tales Of Adventure

This collection of twenty-five adventure narratives, compiled from the Wide World Magazine, presents first-hand accounts by identified authors. The opening story, "A Fight with a Sting-Ray" by Charles B. Marlett, describes two Canadian schoolteachers in Fiji who encounter a sting-ray while fishing near Beqa island. After hiring native divers to clear their net, one boy, Tomassi, is attacked by the ray's venomous tail. Harry harpoons the creature, which charges their dory, capsizing it. The second diver, Turago, inflicts a mortal knife wound from beneath; both boys are rescued, though Tomassi suffers a severe thigh laceration. Subsequent stories (titles visible in contents) include "A Fall of Three Thousand Feet," "Entombed in a Capsized Ship," "The Diver and the Devil Fish," and accounts of encounters with polar bears, pythons, octopi, eagles, tigers, and wolves. The volume emphasizes documentary authenticity, noting contributors provided photographs and evidence supporting their claims.