Books with author Roy Rockwood

1929. Roy Rockwood is a Stratemeyer Syndicate house name that appeared on many series books, but the two most famous were Bomba the Jungle Boy and the Great Marvel Series. The lion's share of the latter were actually written by Howard Garis. Though Garis is commonly assumed to have written the Bomba books as well, the actual author was John Duffield. Bomba lived far back in the jungles of the Amazon with a half-demented naturalist who told the lad nothing of his past. The jungle boy was a lover of birds, and hunted animals with a bow and arrow and his trusty machete. He had a primitive education in some things, and his daring adventures will be followed with breathless interest by thousands. This is the eighth volume in the series. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Two of the highest-ranking students of the Universal Electrical and Chemical College, Jack Darrow and Mark Sampson, are world travelers -- for they already have trips to the North Pole, South Pole, and the Center of the Earth beneath their belts!Although their college research work is going well, a mysterious summons calls them back to the side of their mentor, Professor Henderson."Boys," he says, "you must excuse me for not saying why I sent for you. My guest, Mr. Roumann, has laid a strange proposition before me. I hardly know what to think. Mr. Roumann has proposed a wonderful trip to -- ""To planet Mars!" bursts out Mr. Roumann. "We are going to make the most wonderful journey on record. A trip through space! Such an opportunity for reaching it, and proving whether or not there is life there, will not occur again for many years. It is now but thirty-five millions of miles away from us. Soon it will begin to recede -- at the rate of twenty-eight millions of miles a year!"