'Biggles Flies Cheap!'

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

If you ever visit Dobbies (UK-based chain of Garden Centres) these books are going cheap at the moment. Very handy, as Biggles is already planned to feature in my next Pulp Alley game.

[Gun bunny]

Any good or just idea fodder?

[Valerik]

Any good or just idea fodder? 

These are crackin' good adventure yarns that mesmerized me at age 11-12.  Oh I knew they were tripe, not true, but who cared?    They were GREAT reads, some published when my father was reading juvenile flying fiction, some newly released when I was devouring them all.  I haven't touched one in years, having left all mine behind when we sailed for home.  The "Gimlet" commando books were also on the menu, but lacking 'planes were 2nd best.

Incidentally I blame growing up reading Dad's boys' aviation books from the '30s for being " 'Plane Crazy" to this day.  Wish I still had 'em all, but they didn't make the move South in '75...  Who knew? 

Lots of Yucatecan adventures, Amazon dangers, Andean high mountain lakes with temples and lost tribes, all accessed by seaplane.  I recall, doubtless imperfectly, that American boy fliers found their adventures in territories South of us, or the Caribbean, whilst the English adventurers were more likely to fly Africa, or India.  Both dipped into China & the vast Pacific. Those books of my youth were good to me, geography, civics, sociology & anthropology in addition to 'planes, flyin' & adventure, all of it at least a wee bit imprecise, & impolitic.

Probably jammed fulla pulp scenarios, back stories and clever ideas, if I had to guess.

Bad cess to Mad Lord Snappywallah for teasin' us across the  Pond with not one but 3 volumes of  Unobtainium...

Valerik

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Looks like they might be available on Amazon through third party sellers- http://www.amazon.com/Biggles-Big-Adventures-Captain-Johns/dp/1853756164/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398573904&sr=8-1&keywords=biggles

[Yankeepedlar01]

Sadly though these are missing my favourite Biggles title : "Biggles Sweeps the Desert".

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

....and of course 'Biggles Flies Undone!' 

[Peter@BattleScape]

Not sure I like the sound of "Biggles breaks the silence", sounds like it could be a bit of a stinker.....

Pete

[Valerik]

....and of course 'Biggles Flies Undone!'

Not sure I like the sound of "Biggles breaks the silence", sounds like it could be a bit of a stinker.....

Rude fellows the both of you, how puerile can you be?

NO, No, NO!!!  This is NOT a contest!!

Don't MAKE me stop you two...


Valerik

[Peter@BattleScape]

Uncle Valerik

Dear sweet kind loving soul that you WHEN have you EVER stopped us before!!! You know that it is not in you....you can never so no to us.... and as the top of the Most Hated and First Against the Wall list, I have absolutely no NEED to out do that lesser chappie "Milady Closed Handbag"


Pete

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

"Milady Closed Handbag"

       

love it!

[Peter@BattleScape]

Eww eer!!! Nudge nudge wink wink...SAY NO MORE!!!

Pete

[Valerik]

Eww eer!!! Nudge nudge wink wink...SAY NO MORE!!!

Shocked, SHOCKED I tell you!!

Have Decency and Decorum Departed Devon?  Are they Absent in Australia?

Were exit visas required or was this an unceremonious egress?


Valerik

[Peter@BattleScape]

We ARE a CONVICT COLONY...what do you expect.....Tea, Crumpet and Croquet???

Pete

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Shocked, SHOCKED I tell you!!

Have Decency and Decorum Departed Devon?  Are they Absent in Australia?

Were exit visas required or was this an unceremonious egress?


Valerik

        

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

We ARE a CONVICT COLONY...what do you expect.....Tea, Crumpet and Croquet???

Pete

Nah, mate! A frosty, pikelets and 8-ball!