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Books
With Lawrence In Arabia - 1924, reprinted 1967, 2003(This book made T.E. Lawrence and Lowell Thomas world famous)
(Text also available online at Internet Archive)
Beyond
Khyber Pass - 1925, reprinted 2001
(Text also available
online at Internet Archive)
The First World Flight: Being the Personal Narratives of Lowell Smith, Erik Nelson, Leigh Wade, Leslie Arnold, Henry Ogden, John Harding - 1925 (Editor)
The
Boy's Life of Colonel Lawrence - 1927, revised edition 1938
(For young readers, story about T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia)'s adventures)
Count
Luckner: The Sea Devil - 1927, reprinted 1964, 2003
(About World War I German Sea Raider/Commander Graf
(Count) Felix von Luckner)
European Skyways: The Story of a Tour of Europe by Airplane - 1927
Raiders
of the Deep - 1928, reprinted 1994, 2004
(About World War I German U-Boats)
Adventures in Afghanistan for Boys - 1928
Woodfill
of the Regulars: A True Story of Adventure from the Arctic to the Argonne - 1929
(Story about World War I Congressional Medal of Honor winner Samuel
Woodfill)
The
Hero of Vincennes: The Story of George Rogers Clark - 1929
(Story of American Revolutionary War hero George
Rogers Clark, older brother of William Clark, of Lewis & Clark
expedition)
The
Sea Devil's Fo'c'sle - 1929
(More adventures of Count
Luckner)
The
Wreck of the Dumaru : A Story of Cannibalism in an Open Boat -
1930
(Story of the survivors of the Dumaru that sunk in the Pacific during
World War I)
India:
Land of the Black Pagoda - 1930, reprinted 2005
(Stories from around India with photos by Harry A. Chase)
Lauterbach
of the China Sea: Escapes and Adventures of a Seagoing Falstaff - 1930
(Story of Captain Lauterbach, navigator of the German cruiser Emden,
while raiding in the western Pacific and Indian Ocean early in World War I)
Rolling
Stone: The Life and Adventures of Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore - 1931
(Story of pioneering American wildlife photographer and painter Arthur
Radclyffe Dugmore)
Tall
Stories: The rise and Triumph of the Great American Whopper - 1931
(Illustrated by Herb Roth)
This
Side of Hell: Dan Edwards, Adventurer - 1932
(Story about World War I Congressional Medal of Honor winner Daniel
R. Edwards)
Kabluk
of the Eskimo - 1932
(Story of Louis Romanet, a fur buyer on the Koksoak River in Québec,
Canada from about 1903 to 1920, apparently given the name Kabluk by the Eskimos)
American Travelers' Guide Book: Spain - 1932
(With Frank Shoonmaker)
Old
Gimlet Eye: The Adventures of Smedley D. Butler - 1933
(Young readers book about World War I soldier and double Congressional
Medal of Honor winner Smedley
Darlington Butler)
Thrills - 1933
Fan
Mail - 1935
(Illustrated by Otto Soglow)
The
Untold Story of Exploration - 1935
(About little known explorers and history of exploration)
A Trip to New York with Bobby and Betty - 1936
(Bobby and Betty children's book)
Thrilling Moments in Thrilling Lives -(pamphlet) Sun Oil Company - 1936
Seeing
Canada with Lowell Thomas - 1936
(Young readers book about Canada with photos)
Seeing
India with Lowell Thomas - 1936
(Young readers book about India with photos)
Men of Danger - 1936
Born
To Raise Hell: The Life Story of Tex O'Reilly, Soldier of Fortune
- 1936, reprinted 2001
(With Tex O'Reilly)
Seeing
Mexico with Lowell Thomas - 1937
(Young readers book about Mexico with photos)
Adventures
Among Immortals - 1937
(With Percy Burton)
Hungry Waters: The Story of the Great Flood, Together with an Account of Famous Floods of History and Plans for Flood Prevention and Control - 1937, illustrated edition 1938
Seeing
Japan with Lowell Thomas - 1937
(Young readers book about Japan with photos)
Wings Over Asia: A Geographic Journey by Airplane -With Rexford W. Barton - 1937
With Allenby in the Holy Land - 1938
(About World War I British General Edmund
Allenby)
Magic
Dials: The Story of Radio and Television - 1939
(Illustrated by Anton Bruehl)
How To Keep Mentally Fit - 1940
Softball!
So What? - With Ted Shane - 1940
(Illustrated book of Lowell Thomas' quasi-celebrity (Baseball legend
Babe Ruth, heavyweight boxer Gene Tunney and others) softball team, The
Nine Old Men, that used to play a light hearted annual softball game with
President Franklin Roosevelt's team in Pawling, New York area during the
1930's)
Stand
Fast For Freedom - With Berton Braley - 1940
(Story of the longest hardest battle in the world... the fight for
human freedom)
Pageant of Adventure - 1940
Pageant of Life - 1941
Pageant
of Romance - 1943
(With Frances R. Thomas, wife)
These
Men Shall Never Die - 1943, reprinted 1971
(About American servicemen killed in action during World War II)
In
New Brunswick We'll Find It - 1950
(With Rex Barton)
Out
of this World: Across the Himalayas to Forbidden Tibet - by Lowell
Thomas, Junior - 1950
(Story of Lowell Thomas and Lowell Thomas Junior's trip to Tibet and
meeting with the Dalai Lama in 1949)
Our
Jerusalem by Bertha Spafford Vester - 1950
(Lowell Thomas wrote introduction, served on board and was past president
of Bertha Spafford Vester's American Colony Charities Association and Lowell
Thomas' second wife, Marianna Munn, served as Executive Director for ten
years during the 1960's and 1970's.)
(Text available
online at Internet Archive)
Back
To Mandalay - 1951
(About World War II in Burma/Myanmar)
Faith
Made Them Champions - edited by Norman Vincent Peale - 1954
(Lowell Thomas contributor)
The New York Thruway Story (pamphlet) - 1955
Seven
Wonders of The World - 1956
(Book to accompany Cinerama film of same name)
The St. Lawrence Seaway Story - 1957
History as You Heard It - 1957
Cripple
Creek Days by Mabel Barbee Lee - 1958, reprinted 1984
(About Gold rush period in Cripple Creek/Victor area, Lowell Thomas wrote forward)
The Silent War in Tibet - by Lowell Thomas, Junior - 1959
The
Vital Spark: 101 Outstanding Lives - 1959
(With Louis Lupas)
Cavalcade of Europe: A Handbook of Information on 22 Countries by 14 Noted Overseas Correspondents - 1960
Great
True Adventures - 1960
(Editor)
The
Dalai Lama - by Lowell Thomas, Junior - 1961
(Biography of the Dalai Lama)
Sir
Hubert Wilkins: His World of Adventure: A Biography - 1961
(About Australian geographer/polar explorer George
Hubert Wilkins)
More
Great True Adventures - 1963
(With Lowell Thomas Jr.)
Lowell Thomas Book of the High Mountains - 1964
Lowell Thomas, Adventurer - Lowell Thomas biography by Mildred
Houghton Comfort - 1965
(Part of young reader Men of Achievement Series)
Lowell
Thomas: The Stranger Everyone Knows - edited by Norman R. Bowen
- 1968
(Biographical profiles of Lowell Thomas by Russel Crouse, Francis Yeats-Brown,
H.
Allen Smith, Dale Carnegie and others)
Famous
First Flights That Changed The History - 1969, reprinted 2004, 2006
(With Lowell Thomas Junior, forward by Buzz Aldrin)
Burma
Jack - With Jack Girsham - 1971
(About big game hunter/adventurer and World War II Merrill's Marauders head army scout
"Burma Jack" Girsham)
Doolittle:
A Biography - With Edward Jablonski - 1976, reprinted 1982
(About aviation pioneer and World War II Air Force Pilot/Commander
James
Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle)
Good
Evening Everybody: From Cripple Creek to Samarkand - 1976
(Autobiography Volume 1 of 2)
So
Long Until Tomorrow: From Quaker Hill to Kathmandu - 1977
(Autobiography Volume 2 of 2)
Lowell
Thomas' Victor: The Man and the Town - by Brian H. Levine - 1982
(About Lowell Thomas and his boyhood hometown of Victor Colorado)
Magazine/Newspaper Articles
"Intrigue in High Asia: Diplomacy in the great mosque at Kabul and the gardens of the Foreign Office" - Asia Magazine - September 1925"Thomas' Press" - Time magazine article about Lowell Thomas editing Saga Advenure magazine - February 11, 1935
First At The
Pole - Lowell Thomas newspaper article/interview of Matthew Henson
- April 2, 1939
(Matthew Henson was Commander Robert E. Peary's assistant, who together
with four Eskimos were first to North Pole on April 6, 1909)
"THE INFANTRYMAN" - True Magazine - tribute article by Lowell Thomas - August 1944
"Man in Perpetual Motion" - Newsweek magazine cover story about Lowell Thomas - November 25, 1957
"My Ten Favorite Places" - The Rotarian magazine Vol. 92, No. 1 pp. 8-13 - January 1958
"My Most Unforgettable Character -- Bertha Vester" - Reader's Digest article about humanitarian Bertha Spafford Vester - August 1962
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Movies
The Blonde Captive - B&W - Lowell Thomas narrates adventure fiction1/documentary expedition in Australia - 1931Throne of the Gods - 55 min B&W - About Swiss explorer Günther Dyhrenfurth's expedition into the Himalayan mountains - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1933
Borneo - 76 min B&W - Lowell Thomas serious of two narrators of Martin and Osa Johnson's Borneo travel/adventure documentary - 1937
The Lion Has Wings - 76 min B&W - Starring Merle Oberon and
Ralph Richardson in film about British Royal Air Force at start of World
War II -
Lowell Thomas narrator U.S. version - 1940
Ski Champs - 76 min Color - Film of world's best skiers at a competition in Aspen, Colorado in 1950 - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1951
This is Cinerama - Cinerama B&W/Color - Narrator -
1952
(Detailed information about This is Cinerama available
online from Cinerama Premiere Book - Scroll down to Program)
Out of this World - 75 min - Documentary with Lowell Thomas
Senior and Junior about 1949 trip to Tibet and Dalai Lama meeting
- Lowell Thomas Narrator - 1954
Seven Wonders of the World - Cinerama color - Lowell Thomas narrates search for natural and man made wonders of the modern world - 1956
Search for Paradise - Cinerama color - 1957
Best of Cinerama - Cinerama color - Narrator - 1962
No Substitute for Victory - 120 min Color - Hosted by John Wayne - Lowell Thomas appears as himself - 1970
Patton - About American World War II General George S. Patton Jr. - Lowell Thomas narrator of Fox Movietone clip in film - 1970
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Movie Shorts
Fox Movietone News Collection - Lowell Thomas narrator - Circa 1919-1944 - University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collection [MIRC].It's
a Bird - 14 min comedic movie short staring Charley Bowers - Lowell
Thomas appears as himself in first film - 1930
(It's a Bird
B&W 7:43 - YouTube)
Sponge Divers of Tarpon Springs Florida - 9:44 min B&W - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1932 - Cinelog/YouTube
Seeing Wonders - Lowell Thomas narrator, Karl Malkames director/filmmaker - 1933
Going Places with Lowell Thomas - Narrator Documentary Shorts - 1934-1937
Schlitz on Mount Washington - 22 min B&W movie short about a tourist hiking and skiing on Mt. Washington - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1935
Manila Roars A Welcome To China Clipper - 1:22 min B&W - Inaugural Flight of China Clipper - Lowell Thomas narrator - 11-29-1935.
America Marching On - 8:44 min B&W movie short about benefits of industrialization - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1937
Frontiers of the Future - 9:57 min B&W editorial short about looking ahead in 1937 - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1937
More Power to You - 9:08 min B&W movie short about oil production - Lowell Thomas narrator - circa 1930's
Know Thy Fellow Man - B&W movie short featuring Ethel Barrymore about supportting local community chest organizations - Lowell Thomas narrator - circa 1930's
This Changing World - B&W movie short about nickel mining in America - Lowell Thomas narrator - circa later 1930's
Killers of the Sea - 48 min B&W adventure/documentary about Captain Wallace Caswell Jr, who fishes for Octopus, sharks and swordfish - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1937
Titans of the Deep - 47 min B&W adventure/documentary about Dr.William Beebe and Otis Barton deep sea diving in Bathysphere - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1938
Primitive Peoples of Matto Grosso - 15:51 min B&W movie short about primitive people of Matto Grosso, South America - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1941 - YouTube
About Faces - 10:21 min B&W movie short about teeth and dental health - Lowell Thomas narrator - circa 1941-1942
A Great Railroad at Work - Part I 24:56, Part II 4:22, Part III 10:18 min B&W movie short about New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads, part I covers passenger and freight operations and maintenance, part II covers night freight, the Yankee Clipper and power stations, part III more Yankee Clipper, tugs & barges, repairs and office operations - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1942
Men Make the Navy - Part I 9:31, Part II 8:54 min B&W Navy recuiting film from World War II - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1942 - YouTube.
Gracias Amigos - 16:03 min B&W thank you film to Central and South American countries supplying raw materials during World War II - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1944
Curtiss-Wright Employment Shorts - 8:58 min B&W Curtiss-Wright Employment recruiting short films - Lowell Thomas narrates first 3 of 7 - 1944
Memories of Columbus - 8 min Color Movietone short about areas explored by Columbus on Dominican Republic - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1945
It's Wanton Murder - 9:48 min B&W American Transit Association driving safety film - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1946
Along the Rainbow Trail - 8 min Color movie short about San Juan river trip in southern Utah - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1946
The World Today: The Man from Missouri - 8 min B&W movie short about President Truman's first year in office - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1946
Cradle of Liberty - 8 min Color Movietone short about historical sites in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1946
Animals in the Service of Man - Part I 11:37, Part II 11:53 min Color American Humane Association movie short about role of animals in society, part II covers history of American SPCA with brief information on 1866 founder Henry Berg - Lowell Thomas narrator - circa 1947
The Chicken of Tomorrow - 20 min Color movie short about chicken and egg farming - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1948
World's Fair Report - 13:41 min Color - Documentary preview about 1964 New York World's Fair - Lowell Thomas narrates - 1963 - Internet Archive. (Faster download and longer B&W version Part I 9:35, Part II 9:27, Part III 9:53 min - YouTube).
Polaroid Dealer Film - 25:02 min B&W Polaroid dealer promotional film - Lowell Thomas narrator - 1964
WJR: One of a Kind - 22:13 min Color WJR Detroit radio advertising solicitation film - Lowell Thomas provides 2:20 min introduction - circa 1966
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Radio
KDKA Radio - Pittsburgh, PA - First radio appearance March 21, 1925Lowell Thomas and the News - September 29, 1930 to May 14, 1976 - NBC and CBS radio networks until 1946, then only at CBS to 1976
A tribute to Lowell Thomas - audio recording by Walter Cronkite - 1981
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