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Adventure Magazine
This March 20, 1922 issue of *Adventure* magazine contains fiction by established adventure writers. The featured complete novel is Talbot Mundy's "The Lion of Petra," set in the Palestinian desert in 1920, following a protagonist and his associate Grim as they pursue a troublesome sheikh named Ali Higg in the remote region near Petra. The narrative opens with the protagonist accepting an invitation to join Grim on a dangerous desert expedition. The issue includes additional stories: Captain Dingle's "The Burial of Billy" (British East Indies), Barry Scobee's "The Drought" (American Southwest), Robert Simpson's "The Goat-Man" (Niger delta), Stanton A. Lapham's "The Unknown Quantity" (Alaska), Rolf Bennett's "Yeller Jack" (sea-based), Charles Beadle's "The Land of Ophir" part two (Sahara), Thomson Burtis's "The Jump-Back" (American Air Service), and E.O. Foster's "A Bit of a Spirit?" (Philippine insurrection). The issue also features departmental sections on camp-fire discussions, weapons, mountaineering, and fishing. An International Correspondence Schools advertisement occupies substantial space promoting technical and commercial education courses.