BIGGLES GOES HOME
Book First Published on 8th September 1960 - 160 pages
This story was first published, in ten parts, as BIGGLES GOES
HOME in TV Express
Weekly issues 290 to 299, dated 21st
May 1960 to 23rd July 1960
First edition dust jacket showing the original price of 8
shillings and 6 pence
Air Commodore Raymond asks
Biggles to return to Garhwal in North East India, a place Biggles knows well,
as he was born and spent the first 12 years of his life there. The assignment
is to rescue a Chinese gentleman called Poo Tah Ling.
He is currently hiding from the Chinese army at the Ruby mine of a Captain John
Toxan. Finding the Ruby mine in the jungle is no easy
task. Enlisting the help of local natives, Biggles and Bertie have to kill a
man-eating tiger because their prospective guide is afraid of leaving his
family whilst it is at large. Ginger parachutes into the camp at the ruby mine
after seeing smoke signals from the air. He thinks the signals could be from
Biggles but really Chinese soldiers have attacked Captain Toxan's
camp and are burning the jungle to flush out Poo Tah
Ling from hiding. With the help of Hamid Khan, a Gurkha soldier, and the
arrival of Biggles at Toxan's camp, they manage to
find Poo Tah Ling and Toxan
and take them back to where Algy is waiting with the aeroplane. The picture on
the dust cover of the book shows the natives carrying a wounded Captain Toxan back to the aircraft. Here they unexpectedly find
more Chinese soldiers but they are able to outwit them and escape to safety.
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Biggles Goes Home
Publication Details - published by Hodder and Stoughton
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