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Biggles #8
Biggles Hits the Trail
Biggles vertrekt met zijn vrienden naar Tibet om een huiveringwekkend raadsel te ontsluieren en daarmee een van zijn meest riskante avonturen te beleven.
160 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1935
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W.E. Johns
613 books113 followersInvariably known as Captain W.E. Johns, William Earl Johns was born in Bengeo, Hertfordshire, England. He was the son of Richard Eastman Johns, a tailor, and Elizabeth Johns (née Earl), the daughter of a master butcher. He had a younger brother, Russell Ernest Johns, who was born on 24 October 1895.
He went to Hertford Grammar School where he was no great scholar but he did develop into a crack shot with a rifle. This fired his early ambition to be a soldier. He also attended evening classes at the local art school.
In the summer of 1907 he was apprenticed to a county municipal surveyor where he remained for four years and then in 1912 he became a sanitary inspector in Swaffham, Norfolk. Soon after taking up this appointment, his father died of tuberculosis at the age of 47.
On 6 October 1914 he married Maude Penelope Hunt (1882–1961), the daughter of the Reverend John Hunt, the vicar at Little Dunham in Norfolk. The couple had one son, William Earl Carmichael Johns, who was born in March 1916.
With war looming he joined the Territorial Army as a Private in the King's Own Royal Regiment (Norfolk Yeomanry), a cavalry regiment. In August 1914 his regiment was mobilised and was in training and on home defence duties until September 1915 when they received embarkation orders for duty overseas.
He fought at Gallipoli and in the Suez Canal area and, after moving to the Machine gun Corps, he took part in the spring offensive in Salonika in April 1917. He contracted malaria and whilst in hospital he put in for a transfer to the Royal Flying Corps and on 26 September 1917, he was given a temporary commission as a Second Lieutenant and posted back to England to learn to fly, which he did at No. 1 School of Aeronautics at Reading, where he was taught by a Captain Ashton.
He was posted to No. 25 Flying Training School at Thetford where he had a charmed existence, once writing off three planes in three days. He moved to Yorkshire and was then posted to France and while on a bombing raid to Mannheim his plane was shot down and he was wounded. Captured by the Germans, he later escaped before being reincarcerated where he remained until the war ended.
He went to Hertford Grammar School where he was no great scholar but he did develop into a crack shot with a rifle. This fired his early ambition to be a soldier. He also attended evening classes at the local art school.
In the summer of 1907 he was apprenticed to a county municipal surveyor where he remained for four years and then in 1912 he became a sanitary inspector in Swaffham, Norfolk. Soon after taking up this appointment, his father died of tuberculosis at the age of 47.
On 6 October 1914 he married Maude Penelope Hunt (1882–1961), the daughter of the Reverend John Hunt, the vicar at Little Dunham in Norfolk. The couple had one son, William Earl Carmichael Johns, who was born in March 1916.
With war looming he joined the Territorial Army as a Private in the King's Own Royal Regiment (Norfolk Yeomanry), a cavalry regiment. In August 1914 his regiment was mobilised and was in training and on home defence duties until September 1915 when they received embarkation orders for duty overseas.
He fought at Gallipoli and in the Suez Canal area and, after moving to the Machine gun Corps, he took part in the spring offensive in Salonika in April 1917. He contracted malaria and whilst in hospital he put in for a transfer to the Royal Flying Corps and on 26 September 1917, he was given a temporary commission as a Second Lieutenant and posted back to England to learn to fly, which he did at No. 1 School of Aeronautics at Reading, where he was taught by a Captain Ashton.
He was posted to No. 25 Flying Training School at Thetford where he had a charmed existence, once writing off three planes in three days. He moved to Yorkshire and was then posted to France and while on a bombing raid to Mannheim his plane was shot down and he was wounded. Captured by the Germans, he later escaped before being reincarcerated where he remained until the war ended.
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June 15, 2025
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Radium mount radiates
From Himalayas
Ginger's crepe soles save the day
This my favourite book from childhood, which I have read many times.
The book was in the house, probably my father's. The story scared me at 13 or 14 and retains its power even now. An unusual Biggles book, with an exotic mix of mysterious foreigners who wield death rays and can be difficult to see, a wooded country estate under siege and a flight into danger to the roof of the world. There is also a mysterious mountain and a hidden society. It is unusual for these elements, but also for because it is particularly imaginative.
Set in the mid-1930s (published in 1935), Biggles uncle, the adventurer Richard Bigglesworth, is being menaced in his country seat by mysterious, invisible, foreigners wielding paralysing blue rays, encounters which lead Biggles and his trusty crew, Algy and Ginger, to the Himalayas. To accompany them, Captain WE Johns introduces a medical student recovering from his drug addiction, who happens to have sufficient inherited wealth to finance the whole expedition. The party discovers a civilisation which has been working for centuries to harness the power of a mountain (literally) of radium, with a view to world conquest. Our heroes overcome a variety of hazards, including electrically controlled white centipedes, aided by a crusty old Scottish ship’s engineer kidnapped by the baddies 40 years earlier.
The beauty of the story is the ways in which Biggles and his party deal with unusual and perplexing adversities with a combination of ingenuity, clear thinking, imagination, pluck and luck.
My favourite sequence comes at the end of the story when our heroes desperately clamber into their sea plane sitting on a dam as a towering mountain spur they have unsettled with cordite crashes into the water, creating a giant wave which will swamp them. As the plane slowly gathers pace in the direction of the dam wall, the only way out, Biggles realises they will not reach enough speed to clear the structure. When a collision is all but inevitable, the wall disappears before their eyes, cracked and broken by the unbearable water pressure. Our heroes are airborne and on their way back to the safety of Chittagong air base in British India (now Bangladesh). Fantastic.
***
Biggles has been a life long pleasure.
My first Biggles book was Biggles of the Camel Squadron, which I got as a birthday present. This was a collection of pretty much stand-alone stories of Biggles World War One exploits. And while they were thrilling adventures they had a hard edge to them, at times Biggles pursues his enemies with white hot hatred which led to ruthless retribution on his part. Johns was still alive when I started reading the stories. Getting a new Biggles book was an eagerly awaited event. I was not conscious of the time span between the stories and I read them mixing up the eras: Biggles in Australia, Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns, Biggles in the Baltic and Biggles in the Jungle (bit silly that one).
But the stories which captured my imagination completely were the four books brought together as the Biggles Air Detective Omnibus: Sergeant Bigglesworth, C.I.D., Biggles' Second Case, Another Job for Biggles and Biggles Works It Out. The best Biggles tales are the ones Johns wrote in the thirties and forties.
The air detective series is great because it taps into several strands of history to produce diverse stories. The biggest, most widespread conflict in history, World War Two, has just finished, with some countries victorious but exhausted and others defeated. All of them had a surplus of men trained for war but with little to do now. While not quite a lost generation, Biggles and his men are like so many other aviation veterans, at a loss, until the air detective gig comes along. So we get: jewel thieves trafficking between Europe and Africa using stolen high performance German prototype aircraft; a renegade U-boat in the Southern Indian Ocean: a new drug being grown in the Middle East and international thieves shifting Australian gold out of the country without going through customs.
Biggles was not in Australia for very long and Johns did not seem to have a clear notion of what an Australian stockman might be like. But Biggles amazes the Aussie and his tracker (who had previously impressed Biggles with his skills), when Biggles uses his aircraft engines to blow away desert sand to reveal the tracks of the bad guys’ aircraft. That was pretty good.
Radium mount radiates
From Himalayas
Ginger's crepe soles save the day
This my favourite book from childhood, which I have read many times.
The book was in the house, probably my father's. The story scared me at 13 or 14 and retains its power even now. An unusual Biggles book, with an exotic mix of mysterious foreigners who wield death rays and can be difficult to see, a wooded country estate under siege and a flight into danger to the roof of the world. There is also a mysterious mountain and a hidden society. It is unusual for these elements, but also for because it is particularly imaginative.
Set in the mid-1930s (published in 1935), Biggles uncle, the adventurer Richard Bigglesworth, is being menaced in his country seat by mysterious, invisible, foreigners wielding paralysing blue rays, encounters which lead Biggles and his trusty crew, Algy and Ginger, to the Himalayas. To accompany them, Captain WE Johns introduces a medical student recovering from his drug addiction, who happens to have sufficient inherited wealth to finance the whole expedition. The party discovers a civilisation which has been working for centuries to harness the power of a mountain (literally) of radium, with a view to world conquest. Our heroes overcome a variety of hazards, including electrically controlled white centipedes, aided by a crusty old Scottish ship’s engineer kidnapped by the baddies 40 years earlier.
The beauty of the story is the ways in which Biggles and his party deal with unusual and perplexing adversities with a combination of ingenuity, clear thinking, imagination, pluck and luck.
My favourite sequence comes at the end of the story when our heroes desperately clamber into their sea plane sitting on a dam as a towering mountain spur they have unsettled with cordite crashes into the water, creating a giant wave which will swamp them. As the plane slowly gathers pace in the direction of the dam wall, the only way out, Biggles realises they will not reach enough speed to clear the structure. When a collision is all but inevitable, the wall disappears before their eyes, cracked and broken by the unbearable water pressure. Our heroes are airborne and on their way back to the safety of Chittagong air base in British India (now Bangladesh). Fantastic.
***
Biggles has been a life long pleasure.
My first Biggles book was Biggles of the Camel Squadron, which I got as a birthday present. This was a collection of pretty much stand-alone stories of Biggles World War One exploits. And while they were thrilling adventures they had a hard edge to them, at times Biggles pursues his enemies with white hot hatred which led to ruthless retribution on his part. Johns was still alive when I started reading the stories. Getting a new Biggles book was an eagerly awaited event. I was not conscious of the time span between the stories and I read them mixing up the eras: Biggles in Australia, Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns, Biggles in the Baltic and Biggles in the Jungle (bit silly that one).
But the stories which captured my imagination completely were the four books brought together as the Biggles Air Detective Omnibus: Sergeant Bigglesworth, C.I.D., Biggles' Second Case, Another Job for Biggles and Biggles Works It Out. The best Biggles tales are the ones Johns wrote in the thirties and forties.
The air detective series is great because it taps into several strands of history to produce diverse stories. The biggest, most widespread conflict in history, World War Two, has just finished, with some countries victorious but exhausted and others defeated. All of them had a surplus of men trained for war but with little to do now. While not quite a lost generation, Biggles and his men are like so many other aviation veterans, at a loss, until the air detective gig comes along. So we get: jewel thieves trafficking between Europe and Africa using stolen high performance German prototype aircraft; a renegade U-boat in the Southern Indian Ocean: a new drug being grown in the Middle East and international thieves shifting Australian gold out of the country without going through customs.
Biggles was not in Australia for very long and Johns did not seem to have a clear notion of what an Australian stockman might be like. But Biggles amazes the Aussie and his tracker (who had previously impressed Biggles with his skills), when Biggles uses his aircraft engines to blow away desert sand to reveal the tracks of the bad guys’ aircraft. That was pretty good.
December 14, 2020
Biggles has dated into problematic territory, particularly in how Johns depicts ‘uncivilised’ (though clearly in this case not unintelligent) people. Assumptions of superiority notwithstanding, this is a roaring, peril-filled, page-turner of an adventure, predicated Jules Verne style around a real-world speculative element.
December 1, 2025
Biggles krijgt een noodoproep via de BBC. Wanneer hij daar op ingaat gebeuren er geheimzinnige dingen maar verkeren hij en zijn vrienden ook meteen in levensgevaar. Het resultaat is een expeditie naar Tibet. In de Himalaya zou zich een gigantische bron van Radium bevinden.
In dit verhaal heeft Ginger net zijn vliegbrevet gehaald en zal hij een belangrijkere rol gaan spelen.
Dit is ongetwijfeld avontuurlijk en spannend, maar tegelijk heeft Johns hier een wetenschappelijke flater geslagen. Daarmee bevindt hij zich in het illustere gezelschap van onder meer Jules Verne. Beiden hebben zich, naar de wilde theorieën destijds na de ontdekking van radium door de Curies, enorm verkeken op de betekenis van radio-aktieve stoffen. Bij Johns (en ook bij Verne) zou dat nog de redding van miljoenen betekenen, in de buurt van radium leven zou het leven haast onbeperkt verlengen, enz. Van de negatieve, zelfs dodelijke effecten was nog geen sprake.
Dus het verhaal, dat in die zin haast science-fiction is, valt een beetje uit de toch wel geloofwaardig gebrachte andere verhalen uit de Biggles-reeks. Maar dat neemt niet weg dat het, als je met die speciale contekst rekening houdt, kan genieten van een spannend verhaal waar een vliegtuig en de kunst van er mee te vliegen een belangrijke rol in speelt.
Er komen enkele nieuwe karakters in voor, van de 3 vrienden die we kennen als de helden van de reeks, Biggles, Algy en Ginger, krijgen we opnieuw een beetje extra inzicht in hun karakter, zonder dat het een psychologische studie wordt. Het is en blijft een avonturenverhaal - voor jongens gezien de periode waarin het geschreven werd.
In dit verhaal heeft Ginger net zijn vliegbrevet gehaald en zal hij een belangrijkere rol gaan spelen.
Dit is ongetwijfeld avontuurlijk en spannend, maar tegelijk heeft Johns hier een wetenschappelijke flater geslagen. Daarmee bevindt hij zich in het illustere gezelschap van onder meer Jules Verne. Beiden hebben zich, naar de wilde theorieën destijds na de ontdekking van radium door de Curies, enorm verkeken op de betekenis van radio-aktieve stoffen. Bij Johns (en ook bij Verne) zou dat nog de redding van miljoenen betekenen, in de buurt van radium leven zou het leven haast onbeperkt verlengen, enz. Van de negatieve, zelfs dodelijke effecten was nog geen sprake.
Dus het verhaal, dat in die zin haast science-fiction is, valt een beetje uit de toch wel geloofwaardig gebrachte andere verhalen uit de Biggles-reeks. Maar dat neemt niet weg dat het, als je met die speciale contekst rekening houdt, kan genieten van een spannend verhaal waar een vliegtuig en de kunst van er mee te vliegen een belangrijke rol in speelt.
Er komen enkele nieuwe karakters in voor, van de 3 vrienden die we kennen als de helden van de reeks, Biggles, Algy en Ginger, krijgen we opnieuw een beetje extra inzicht in hun karakter, zonder dat het een psychologische studie wordt. Het is en blijft een avonturenverhaal - voor jongens gezien de periode waarin het geschreven werd.
July 12, 2021
A rather strange one, but good none the less. Reminded me a bit of Biggles and the Cruise of the Condor, which is another very good Biggles book.
July 30, 2018
It is a rip roaring action packed children's book, and definitely Scifi adventure (along with the two 'Kings of Space' books - WE John's forays into Scifi) ; however I must address some criticisms. The book was written and set most likely in the 30's (first published 1941) when radiation et al was little understood and thought rather miraculous for all uses. That Johns attributes all sorts of properties to the mysterious radium of the blue mountain is of course scientifically wrong, but it is not different than superhero back-stories attributing their changes to 'mysterious unknown forms of radiation' and this is after all a children's book. In fact the story is no more improbable than the average TV series (Lost?!) or Hollywood movie and more excusable given its era. So take it as a story and leave it at that.
Secondly by today's standards some of the language & setting could be considered racist, but that doesn't mean it is. Johns quite frequently uses anachronisms - e.g. Biggles "snarls" at young protege Ginger - we wouldn't use that term in that way today either. I consider the use of cigarettes far more jarring and problematic than the overly political correctness of language, which frankly will go over the heads of the books intended audience anyway, and really rather is simply amusing nostalgia.
Secondly by today's standards some of the language & setting could be considered racist, but that doesn't mean it is. Johns quite frequently uses anachronisms - e.g. Biggles "snarls" at young protege Ginger - we wouldn't use that term in that way today either. I consider the use of cigarettes far more jarring and problematic than the overly political correctness of language, which frankly will go over the heads of the books intended audience anyway, and really rather is simply amusing nostalgia.
March 16, 2018
This is one of my all time B-Favourites!
Delightful nonsense.
Clearly, the author didn't know the slightest thing regarding radio-activity.
If radiation is so strong to paralyze people, disrupt engines, turn metal into biscuits (is there any metal in your plane...)
Then people would die on the spot. Take a look at the fate of the brave fire-fighters of the Chernobyl disaster. They lasted minutes.
But when "Hits the trail" was written, Nuclear technology was the unbound promise of the future
Delightful nonsense.
Clearly, the author didn't know the slightest thing regarding radio-activity.
If radiation is so strong to paralyze people, disrupt engines, turn metal into biscuits (is there any metal in your plane...)
Then people would die on the spot. Take a look at the fate of the brave fire-fighters of the Chernobyl disaster. They lasted minutes.
But when "Hits the trail" was written, Nuclear technology was the unbound promise of the future
March 2, 2020
Biggles, Ginger and Algy travel with his uncle Dickpa and his scientfic assistant to the Himalayas to recover a special type of radium that emits a blue beam.
The mountain is inhabited by an ancient asiatic race that have death rays and a power station. Everything gets thrown in.
The mountain is inhabited by an ancient asiatic race that have death rays and a power station. Everything gets thrown in.
January 14, 2024
Whilst I like the fact that Johns is experimenting with the format of Biggles and trying to bring in elements of other genres, I think the science fiction nature of this story was a bit of a miss. The plot was not as well thought through or structured as Johns' war stories (probably because most of his war stories are based on experience) and the enemies are a faceless, nameless hoard of racist Chinese caricatures. I'd be happy to see science fiction attempted again in a future book, but the 'Mountain of Light', invisibility potion and 'blue ray' didn't quite hit the mark. 2 stars.
January 7, 2018
Couldn't help it - childhood memories. It's really miserable if you read it now. I shouldn't have. But it helped make me who I am. Which isn't necessarily high praise.
September 30, 2019
Who'd had thought radiation would save the day? WEJ gets a bit inspired by his space series I think.
May 31, 2021
A bit fanciful and far fetched this one but still an enjoyable read and exciting.
September 18, 2023
Love Biggles, and Ginger even more!
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October 27, 2025
"I don't fancy my chance as centipede fodder."
April 10, 2022
4.6 out of 5. Easy reading. Another enjoyable romp with Biggles. I mainly read them as they give great insights into the colonial mindset in the 1930s. This story involves a radium mine and is quite SF in the way it speculates about the future uses of radiation - limitless energy, ray guns, genetic engineering. It also shines a light on the English view of China and Tibet. A good read if you can stomach the casual racism, action-packed and fascinating insight into what our parents thought the future would be like.
April 5, 2018
One of the stranger Biggles books
1 January 2014
If this was the first Biggles book that you read then you would be forgiven for thinking at all of the Biggles books were like this one and thus throwing the whole series away in disgust when you discover that they are not. This one book has everything that you would expect from a 1930's pulp science-fiction story – secret cults, ageless men, robotic centipedes, and ray guns that are designed to kill people and disable aircraft. In fact, this particular story literally reads as if the entire series were like this, when in reality (as far as I know, because this is only the fifth Biggles book that I have read, which includes three collections of short stories) they are not.
Well, I think I have given away most of the plot in that opening paragraph, but I will rehash it again just in case you did not get it. Biggles is summoned by a professor who has discovered a strange mountain in Tibet, one that glows because of the amount of radium in it (and I suspect that the radium in this story is quite different to the radium in real life). However, they have also stumbled across a strange mystery involving some people dying from unknown causes, so they decide to travel to Tibet to investigate this strange phenomena.
Fortunately, they discover a place to land the plane, and then travel over to the mountain (which also fortuitously happens to be not all that far from where they have landed the plane) to discover that it is occupied by an ancient Chinese cult (who they refer to as the Chungs, and while some people have criticised Johns for being racist and degrading in this regard, I did not actually see the Chungs as being Chinese per se, but rather being members of the strange cult).
Anyway, Biggles quickly discovers that the Chungs are hostile, so he grabs his Lewis Gun (which looks like this):
and he, Algie, and Ginger run around the secret base with their other companions, which includes a Scottish sailor who had been kidnapped by the Chungs, who, upon discovering Biggles and his cohorts, manages to escape and helps them, shooting the Chungs (because while they are expert martial artists, they discover that they have met their match when they come face to face with the Lewis Gun) and pretty much destroy the base before returning home to England (after a miraculous escape from Tibet in a way that only Biggles, ace pilot, can do).
All in all this was an okay book, but it did not maintain the standard that the other Biggles book that I read (I think it was Biggles Takes it Rough) and you can't really compare them to the short stories either. Also, from what I gather, there are probably not that many, if any, Biggles books out there than run along the same theme, despite the fact that there, I believe, are bucket loads of Biggles books around for those of us who still like to read our Biggles.
1 January 2014
If this was the first Biggles book that you read then you would be forgiven for thinking at all of the Biggles books were like this one and thus throwing the whole series away in disgust when you discover that they are not. This one book has everything that you would expect from a 1930's pulp science-fiction story – secret cults, ageless men, robotic centipedes, and ray guns that are designed to kill people and disable aircraft. In fact, this particular story literally reads as if the entire series were like this, when in reality (as far as I know, because this is only the fifth Biggles book that I have read, which includes three collections of short stories) they are not.
Well, I think I have given away most of the plot in that opening paragraph, but I will rehash it again just in case you did not get it. Biggles is summoned by a professor who has discovered a strange mountain in Tibet, one that glows because of the amount of radium in it (and I suspect that the radium in this story is quite different to the radium in real life). However, they have also stumbled across a strange mystery involving some people dying from unknown causes, so they decide to travel to Tibet to investigate this strange phenomena.
Fortunately, they discover a place to land the plane, and then travel over to the mountain (which also fortuitously happens to be not all that far from where they have landed the plane) to discover that it is occupied by an ancient Chinese cult (who they refer to as the Chungs, and while some people have criticised Johns for being racist and degrading in this regard, I did not actually see the Chungs as being Chinese per se, but rather being members of the strange cult).
Anyway, Biggles quickly discovers that the Chungs are hostile, so he grabs his Lewis Gun (which looks like this):
and he, Algie, and Ginger run around the secret base with their other companions, which includes a Scottish sailor who had been kidnapped by the Chungs, who, upon discovering Biggles and his cohorts, manages to escape and helps them, shooting the Chungs (because while they are expert martial artists, they discover that they have met their match when they come face to face with the Lewis Gun) and pretty much destroy the base before returning home to England (after a miraculous escape from Tibet in a way that only Biggles, ace pilot, can do).
All in all this was an okay book, but it did not maintain the standard that the other Biggles book that I read (I think it was Biggles Takes it Rough) and you can't really compare them to the short stories either. Also, from what I gather, there are probably not that many, if any, Biggles books out there than run along the same theme, despite the fact that there, I believe, are bucket loads of Biggles books around for those of us who still like to read our Biggles.
December 22, 2025
I am reviewing the series as a whole, rather than the books individually
The Biggles series is great adventure fiction: we get high stakes, aerial action (in most of the books), and a hero who is endlessly loyal, competent, and calm under pressure.
I love the dogfights, recon missions, and wartime scenarios.
Where the series falls short is character depth. Some attitudes and simplifications reflect the period in which the books were written. There are very definitely dated elements, but considering the era the books were written - overall the series performs well. More than a few of the stories defy plausibility, but who doesn't love to curl up with a good adventure book or 10?
“Never say die.”
The Biggles series is great adventure fiction: we get high stakes, aerial action (in most of the books), and a hero who is endlessly loyal, competent, and calm under pressure.
I love the dogfights, recon missions, and wartime scenarios.
Where the series falls short is character depth. Some attitudes and simplifications reflect the period in which the books were written. There are very definitely dated elements, but considering the era the books were written - overall the series performs well. More than a few of the stories defy plausibility, but who doesn't love to curl up with a good adventure book or 10?
“Never say die.”
January 4, 2026
One of my favourites from my childhood.
The language is a bit dated and definitely politically uncorrect.
What do you expect, the book was published in 1936.
The language is a bit dated and definitely politically uncorrect.
What do you expect, the book was published in 1936.
May 1, 2013
All I can vaguely remember about this book is the man-eating electro-centipedes (or whatever they were. Biggles works out they use electricity to move and stun their prey, and comes up with a way to use rubber matting to be able to step through the electrical field and not be stunned immobile.
November 20, 2012
One of the oddest Biggles books, more of a science fiction kind of story, with invisible Chinamen planning to take over the world. Always nice to see Tibet get a mention, though!
January 27, 2014
Science fiction Biggles! With liberal doses of casual and not so casual racism. Nevertheless an exciting story that holds up surprisingly well.
August 11, 2014
Luckily I was prepared for the unnatural part of the story; sometimes it was little too far-fetched for a war heroes. Still adventurous and funny.
June 28, 2016
persoonlijk vond ik dit een wat minder verhaal. Biggles ziet er niet tegenop om een hele groep mensen te doden in hun poging in radium te bemachtigen.
November 3, 2021
Been a long time since I read it but I remember reading it multiple times so I must have liked it.
Biggles is in Tibet, before the Chinese occupation.
Biggles is in Tibet, before the Chinese occupation.
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