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Hambleton.
Abitibi Adventure
by Jack Hambleton
Author of
FOREST RANGER
YOUNG BUSH PILOT
FISHERMAN'S PARADISE
HUNTER'S HOLIDAYS
Decorations by Thoreau MacDonald
This third action-packed story of the Bill Hanson series tells how he temporarily leaves
the Forestry Service to work for the Lowbush Paper Company,
which is rushing completion of a new mill. The excitement starts in the first chapter,
when Bill's airplane crashes in the bush in the middle of winter and he and Mickey,
his faithful Irish terrier, have to find their way out on foot.
Going to work for the paper company, Bill is given the job of flying men and supplies,
and operating a snowmobile. He lives in the logging camps, sees how the pulpwood is
cut and got out of the bush, and lends a hand in the forming of a giant boom to float the
logs down to the mill.
The company has a deadline to meet, with a million-dollar guarantee at stake.
Tension grows as the deadline approaches, and one obstacle after another is met and
overcome in the race to get the logs to the mill on time. Just when success seems
assured, there is an accident and the logs pile up in one of the worst jams on record.
What happens then provides the most thrilling episode in the book—and we'd better
not spoil the story for you by telling about it now.
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"JACK HAMBLETON
Jack Hambleton is a popular freelance writer whose Sportsman's Show,
a weekly radio program, is listened to by many sports enthusiasts all over
Canada and the United States. A specialist in outdoor writing for years,
a former newspaperman and director of Ontario's Travel and Publicity Bureau,
he has wandered all over the north, using every means of transportation,
from canoe and dog-team to airplane.
He is a member of five Ontario associations of anglers and hunters as well as the
Outdoor Writers' Association of America. Incidentally, Mr. Hambleton admits to using
the badges of these clubs to patch his pet hunting shirt. He also considers the first four
years of his life completely wasted because, he says, he didn't hit the outdoor trails till
he was five.
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"Copyright, Canada, 1951
By
LONGMANS. GREEN & COMPANY
Longmans, Green and Co.,
215 Victoria Street, Toronto 1
Longmans, Green and Co., Inc.,
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Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd.,
6&7 Clifford Street, London, W.I
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Bombay, Calcutta, Madras
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK,
OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IN ANY FORM.
First Edition, November, 1951
Printed and Bound in Canada
T. H. Best Printing Co., Limited, Toronto
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"FOREWORD
During my 30 years as a reporter and feature writer, it seems to me that scores,
perhaps hundreds, of youngsters have asked how one goes about ""getting into""
the world's most exciting business.
In Cub Reporter, the author has tried to show just how one boy—and he is a real boy—
did accomplish his aim.
But let the boy who aims to emulate the Tom Walden of this book remember this:
Reporting is exciting; glamorous; interesting. And you meet a lot of interesting people!
At the same time, few professions in the world are more exacting or require more hard
work.
Any reporter can vouch for the fact that in the day to day grind, meals are missed;
sleep is forgotten. Reporting is a 24-hour a day job; seven days a week.
An education is essential. You can get along without having gone further than public
school—but you
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"get along a whole lot better if you have gone further. One of the most valuable assets
of any reporter is an ability to type fast and accurately.
There is no royal road to Page One—or if there is, I never found it. Nor, I'm sure,
did Mack Taggart or any others of the real people in this book.
To R. A. Farquharson, former managing editor of The Toronto Globe and Mail;
Kenneth W. Mac-Taggart, one of the best reporters I know, and the scores of others
who helped me in this and other works over a long time, my sincere thanks.
Toronto
October 25, 1951
Jack Hambleton
Cliffcrest, Ontario
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