The Society for Marvelous Misadventures

About the Book

Volume 1: Members of a special society, who are all professionals in one field or another, meet irregularly over lunch or dinner to discuss their various interests. They read of an iceberg in the South Pacific that sinks ships and then disappears. They pool their collective talents in order to try to solve the mystery baffling shipping companies and governments alike. Because of their success, they get pulled into other puzzles, including a time-traveling love boat, latent memories, murder, fraud, international terrorists, and a little romance. Here are their journals describing the use of both scientific reasoning and physical derring-do to survive their marvelous misadventures.

Volume 2: Members of a special society, who are all professionals in one field or another, meet irregularly over lunch or dinner to discuss their various interests. In Book Two they encounter a coup d’état, drug runners, latent memories involving murder, a serial killer, and a little romance on the side. Here are their continuing journals describing how they use of both scientific reasoning and physical derring-do to survive their continuing marvelous misadventures.

About the Author

Nelson Bohall was born in Medford, Oregon, from where the family later moved to San Francisco. He graduated from Lick-Wilmerding-Lux Technical School in 1940 specializing in electrical engineering. He became an apprentice engineer for Sperry Gyroscope, a Special Equipment installer at Bethlehem Shipbuilding, then worked at Pacific Telephone as Switching and Broadcast Television technician. Was promoted to Radio Engineer, then Senior Project Development Engineer in Wideband Data Transmission. In 1964 he became the Director of the Engineering Education Center, Pacific Telephone, where he also taught Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Economics, Mathematics and Probabilities. In 1972 he moved to Seattle, where he founded the Voluntary Education Center for Pacific Northwest Bell, while teaching Advanced Engineering Principals and “Physics for Fun.” He also authored his first book, “Introduction to Probabilities.” In 1981, he took a position as Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering, at Cogswell College in Seattle until 1984. He also lectured at University of Washington in 1980.

From their home in Edmonds, Washington, Nelson and his late wife, Laura, took to RVing. They continued this hobby when they moved to Tucson, Arizona, in 1992 traveling throughout the United States and Canada and making excursions to Hawaii, Samoa, and Europe. Since he wrote much of his own texts while teaching, he kept on writing …fiction, too. Other hobbies and interests include astronomy, hot-air ballooning, and sharing his habitat with a Lhasa Apso and four cats. With his new bride, Barbara, he has purchased his fifth RV, and they will be traveling the countryside, as they are both “Starting All Over Again.”