From letters and a continuity supplied by the editors, this autobiography of the author of Royal Road to Romance gives a warmly human, glamorous story of a dramatic career. One gets to know him first hand, from checkered school days, interrupted by running away to be a sailor and tramping through Central Europe; and from that time on a victim to the spur of restlessness and a yen for adventure, until the last word came of storm at sea and decks awash.