A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer

by Pierre Mac Orlan

A how-to manual for the armchair adventurer

Pierre Mac Orlan's 1920 Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer was at once a paean to the adventure story, a tongue-in-cheek guidebook to the genre's real-life practitioners and a grim if unspoken coda to the disasters of World War I. "It must be established as a law that adventure in itself does not exist," Mac Orlan stipulates. "Adventure is in the mind of the one who pursues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939663008
• ISBN13: 9781939663009
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Wakefield Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.6" x 7.0"