The Talking Handkerchief

The Talking Handkerchief, and Other Stories

by Thomas Wallace KNOX (1835 - 1896)

This is a collection of 22 stories of action and adventure. We follow the narrators as they escape pirates and cannibals, overcome natural disasters, and are attacked by wild animals. Cunning plans are executed and daring escapes are accomplished, all in the particular style of the 19th century adventure story. Thomas Knox was an author who had travelled around the world by the time he wrote the stories in this volume, and who was no stranger to any of the geographic areas in which he set his stories. - Summary by Carolin

Listen next episodes of The Talking Handkerchief, and Other Stories:
A Battle with a Kangaroo , A Chemical Detective , A Corroboree in Australia , A Fight with a Tiger , A Russian Elopement , An Exile's Escape from Siberia , Beset by Chinese Pirates , Betrayed by a Mirage , Captured by Cannibals , Caught in a Typhoon , Chased by Malay Pirates , Chased by Wolves , Frozen to an Ice-Floe , In a Shark's Mouth , Jugglers of the Orient , Oriental Thieves , Stopped by Russian Robbers , The Head-Hunters of Borneo , The Serf's Revenge , To the Great Wall of China , Treed by an Elephant