Andre Malraux. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. 
 
Harrison Smith & Robert Hass: 1935. First American edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Significant chipping and tears along the top and bottom of the jacket. Price clipped on the front flap. Some soiling  and foxing on the jacket as well. Fading on the boards and spine of the book. Besides a little sunning, the text is clean. 290 pages. Jacket is good, book is very good. 
 
A man is driven by sensuality, ambition, and the need to act in the decaying jungles of Siam. He'll save enslaved whites and search for forbidden treasures. From Malraux, the Nobel Prize winning philosopher and novelist, but here it isn't about politics, as in Man's Fate. It's about the quest and the adventure. 
 
"To be king signifies nothing, the building of the kingdom is what counts."