In Search of El Dorado: 



A Wanderer's Experiences. 



By ALEXANDER MACDONALD, F.R.G.S. 



Wi'i/t 32 Illustrations. Demy 8w, cloth, 10/6 net. 



READERS with a taste for adventure will find this book a 

 storehouse of good things, for in the course of various 

 mineralogical expeditions the author has roughed it in many remote 

 quarters of the globe, and a large share of strange and thrilling 

 experiences has fallen to his lot. At the same time he possesses 

 a literary skill with which few travellers are gifted. 



The episodes in his career which the book relates fall under 

 three heads. In Part I., " The Frozen North," he gives some vivid 

 sketches of rough and tumble life in the Klondyke region; Part II., 

 "Under the Southern Cross," describes his adventures while pro- 

 specting for gold in Western Australia ; Part III., " Promiscuous 

 Wanderings," tells of his experiences in the Queensland Back 

 Blocks, in the Opal Fields of New South Wales, in British New 

 Guinea, in the Gum Land of Wangeri, New Zealand, and with the 

 Pearlers of Western Australia. 



" It was with a secret joy that we sat up till the small hours of 

 the morning to finish Mr. Alexander Macdonald's new book, ' In 

 Search of El Dorado : A Wanderer's Experiences.' The author's 

 wanderings have led him all over the world, digging for gold, silver, 

 opals, and gum. The wonderful characters are vividly drawn, and 

 his two companions, Mac and Stewart, are men one would like to 

 shake hands with. . . . We can conscientiously say that we have 

 had as much pleasure from this book as from the half dozen best 

 novels of the year." — Bystander. 



LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN. 



