INTRODUCTION
Hammond Innes, who wrote Campbell's Kingdom, is a man who loves adventure. He likes to travel
to far away places and share the life of men who do hard and dangerous work in the open air.
The stories he writes are the fruits of these travels, as
· the title of his latest book, Harvest of Journeys, suggests.
He spent three months in Canada, exploring the Rocky Mountains and studying the oil-fields in
Alberta, before writing Campbell's Kingdom. . He saw how wild the country is and how hard
it is to find oil. He watched the engineers get the oil up from where it lies in the rocks far
under the ground, and he saw what strength and skill they need to do it. All this is
reflected in Campbell's Kingdom, which is the exciting story of
a man who is determined to prove that "There's oil in the
Rocky Mountains".
The engineering difficulties are made easy to understand. The scenery is splendidly
described. And the unfamiliar way of life in Western Canada adds a special interest to this
story of
adventure.