Carveth Wells

Grant Carveth Wells (21 January 1887 – 16 February 1957) was a British adventurer, travel writer, and television personality in the mid-twentieth century.

[1] Wells was the author of eighteen travel-related books, including Six Years in the Malay Jungle, Road to Shalimar, and North of Singapore.

His father was one of a long line of forebears named Thomas Wells, stretching back to the seventeenth-century settlement of the Somers Isles (or Islands of Bermuda).

It was thought that his father would not live long and he was advised to apply for a commuted pension and to withdraw the money in a lump sum, which he quickly spent.

[7] In the early 1930s, Wells and his wife travelled to Soviet Russia, on a trip that would take him to the borders of Turkey, in search of the remains of Noah's Ark.

[9] Wells recorded his observations of the trip in his book, Kapoot: The Narrative of a Journey From Leningrad to Mount Ararat in Search of Noah's Ark.

[8][10] In his book, North of Singapore, written in 1939, Wells documented Japanese attitudes towards the United States and China on the eve of World War II.