THE SEARCH FOR THE LITTLE YELLOW MEN. An Eagle Special Investigator Adventure. By Macdonald Hastings.

1979 1st edition. 8vo (131 x 203mm). Pp144. B/w photograph plates. Yellow boards, blue titles to spine.

"Macdonald Hastings is known to most boys as Eagle's Special Investigator and this is the book version of his most exciting and important exploit to date - a hazardous journey across the Kalahari Desert to locate the last few of the world's most primitive people. It is told straight, without fictional frills, and will thrill the great public, both of the young and of the old, that has developed such an appetite for true stories of modern adventure". Chapters include: Nothing but the truth; Uncle Lewis; The final preparations; A truck, a truck ...my kingdom for a truck; The expedition fits out; The worst road in the world; Babes in the bush; The Great Thirst; Zimba! Zimba!; "Crossing entirely at owner's risk; Big Guts; The men who turn into lions at night; I find the little yellow men; No, the hunter; Africa's Stone Age men; We have a casualty; Crisis!; Into the big game country; Behind you, the lioness is behind you; We are washed out; Chris Ware's story; The biggest waterfall in the world; The little red sports plane.