Don and Jim Mercer were prepared to spend a dull vacation at home when Professor Scott invited them to Lower California and a search for Spanish treasure. But their adventure was not all fun, for Don, Jim, and their friend Terry Mackson soon found themselves involved with a band of ruthless men determined to salvage the treasure for themselves and to stop at nothing to do it. Don and Jim fought for their lives in a series of startling adventures which make this story of buried treasure an absorbing and exciting tale.
THE MERCER BOYS WITH THE COAST GUARD
by Capwell Wyckoff
When floods forced Woodcrest Military Academy to close, Don and Jim Mercer found themselves facing a dull two months at home. That was why they eagerly accepted the chance to visit a coast guard station.
Don and Jim were anxious to participate in the thrilling rescues off Daggerpoint Rock and in the difficult beach patrols. But they didn’t bargain for a mystery which led them from one thrilling adventure to another until they finally solved it.
The Mercer Boys with the Coast Guard is a fast-paced, exciting story every boy will enjoy.
CALL TO ADVENTURE
edited by Robert Spiers Benjamin
Here is adventure of every kind! Fishing for the broad-bill swordfish in Catalina waters, an airplane crash in the Andalusian desert, a trip around Cape Horn, a shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, a walrus hunt, an encounter with cannibals, an attack by a bear from the ice floes of Greenland to the matted jungles of the South Sea Islands, these men of adventure sail and hunt and fight with a courage and abandon that will transport every reader to another, more exciting world.