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Desmond Holdridge
DESMOND HOLDRIDGE (1906-1946) was an American explorer and writer who had several brushes with death in exotic and far-flung locations before his tragic death in a car crash at age 40.
Born in Bal...view moreDESMOND HOLDRIDGE (1906-1946) was an American explorer and writer who had several brushes with death in exotic and far-flung locations before his tragic death in a car crash at age 40.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1925 he cruised into sub-Arctic waters in the Atlantic with two other youths, where a five-day gale battered his 32-foot boat to pieces. The three survivors were picked up by another schooner. In 1928, he again was feared lost when he revisited Labrador in search of the island where Martin Frobisher established a colony in 1575, but he managed to return to Baltimore, only to ship out again.
The only white man on the expedition, he discovered a lost tribe of ferocious Indians in the jungles of southern Venezuela, who one night attacked his camp but fled when Holdridge blew the campfire into flames. He later made friends with the tribe.
He published several books, including Escape to the Tropics (1937), Witch in the Wilderness (1938) and Death of a Common Man (1941), which was adapted to film in 1947 (“End of the River”).
He was killed in an automobile accident in 1946 in Finksburg, Maryland.
EDWARD SHENTON (1895-1977) was an American illustrator, author, editor, poet, and teacher. He illustrated over 130 books including The Yearling, Tender Is the Night, Green Hills of Africa, Freedom River Florida 1845, This Is My Country, The Flaming Sword, and three volumes of the Rivers of America Series. He also illustrated “The Long Trains Roll” by Stephen W. Meader in 1944. During the 1930s he was the “house” illustrator for Scribner’s magazine, where he drew interior illustrations as well as covers. He also wrote 10 books and 75 articles for various magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, The New Yorker, Collier’s, and The Atlantic Monthly.view less