The Flying Carpet: The Record of a Great Adventure

THE FLYING CARPET is an exciting narrative of true adventure by a young man who liked to live dangerously.

In a two-seater plane he and his pilot flew round the world, staying en route in many many strange people.

After a hazardous crossing of the Sahara they came to Timbuctoo, where they ‘bought’ two Negro children in the slave-market.

They lived with the tough soldiers of the French Foreign Legion. They fell in love with an Arab dancing-girl. Back to France, then over the Alps to Venice and on to Constantinople and Palestine they flew. In Bagdad they took the boy Prince Ghazi for a flight; in Teheran they arranged for themselves to be ‘arrested’ in order to experience the inside of a Persian prison.

Then on to India with ‘flying’ visits to the Taj Mahal and Mount Everest; on again via Siam and Malaya to Borneo, where they lived with a tribe of headhunters. From the Philippines they returned to U.S.A. by sea.