Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tuesday 2 June 1936, page 8


MR. CARL SHREVE.

American Writer in Sydney.

Mr. Carl Shreve, an American magazine illustrator and author, arrived in Sydney by the Monowai yesterday, en route to French Ihdo-China. He said he Intended to return

to Sydney after his trip to the East, and would then remain several months in Aus-tralia. He recently spent three years of adventurous travel in little-known parts of the East collecting material for a book of adventure, which was now in the hands of his New York publishers. During the tour he travelled over the Gobi Desert and into Siberia, travelled by elephant through the Siamese jungle, from Siam to Burma, and Journeyed to Tibet by aeroplane, returning via the Khyber Pass and bandit-ridden

Afghanistan.

When he returned to Australia, Mr. Shreve said, he intended to visit Darwin and Arnhem Land to see the aborigines in their savage state, and also to taste life t»s It was lived In the outback districts.