Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges
October 22 1882- June 12 1959
English Adventurer and Writer
F.A. Mitchell-Hedges was the inspiration for the Indiana Jones®.
Mitchell-Hedges was mentioned in the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as was, "The Mitchell-Hedges Skull," and the bit about Pancho Villa.
His book, Danger My Ally is an easy and exciting read about the adventures that filled the life of this fascinating man. Follow his adventures around the world when he rode with Pancho Villa to his pirate treasure on Roatan Island in the Caribbean and to the Crystal Skull in British Honduras, now Belize.
Danger My Ally was written by F.A. Mitchell-Hedges in 1954 and re-published in 1995 in this 255 page paperback with 70 photographic illustrations.
Book written by Frederick Mitchell Hedges:
Battles with Giant Fish (London 1923; London 1925 [with additions]; Portuguese trans. as Combates com Monstros Marinhos, Lisbon 1939).
Episodes from "Battles with Giant Fish" (London 1927).
Land of Wonder and Fear (London 1931; New York 1931).
The White Tiger (London 1931; Wroughton 1943).
Battling with Sea Monsters (London 1937; as Battles with monsters of the sea, Indianapolis 1937).
Danger My Ally (London [printed The Hague] 1954; Boston 1955).
