Far Out Adventures:
The Best of World Explorer Magazine
by David Hatcher Childress

Far Out Adventures: The Best of World Explorer Magazine This is what adventurers read between journeys!

Far-Out Adventures is a compilation of the first nine issues of "World Explorer Magazine," the periodical for the "arm-chair Indiana Jones." The driving force behind this anthology is none other than David Hatcher Childress, who manages to edit the periodical between his trips to the far flung corners of the world. The collection features articles on such phenomena as living pterodactyls (my own favorite cryptozooid); evidence of visitation by extraterrestrials in humanity's early history; archeological mysteries such as remains of Noah's Ark on Mt. Ararat; the Acambaro artifacts; mysterious creatures such as the Chupacabras and the Batsquatch; and pre-Columbian visits by the Egyptians, Vikings, and Phoenicians to the New World. There are also a number of cartoons and tongue in cheek items; this periodical never loses its sense of humor, even as it encourages us to go out and recreate the adventures of Roy Chapman Andrews, Colonel Percy Fawcett, and Ted Holiday.

The authors for the pieces in the periodical, and therefore this collection, are various; they include David Hatcher Childress, of course, as well as archeologist Frank Joseph and UFOlogist Scott Corrales, and a plethora of other thinkers in the field of alternate science, historiography, and biology. These luminaries in the field, as well as many up-and-coming thinkers, make this an outstanding anthology of revisionism.

The collection has several weaknesses, however. The inclusion of the word "best of" in the subtitle is inaccurate, since the editors made no effort to weed out the good from the bad, but have merely bound together every page of every issue of the periodical. Information about the issue number at the bottom of the page would have been helpful; there is no continuous pagination, despite the use of such a system in the table of contents. This poses less of a problem than one might think, however, because the items are almost always worth the hunt--most good things are--and because one is likely to stumble across something just as interesting. In several cases, the photographs are of very poor quality.

Still, there is enough variety in the types of articles here presented that everyone who has an interest in such material will find something new. This is a worthwhile investment for any student of the weird or the adventurous, for those who reject the fallacies foisted upon us by mainstream science, for those who think that there are places on the map which have not yet been thoroughly explored, and those who believe that mystery and excitement might lie just around the corner at any time!



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