Download or read book Encounters with Wild Beasts written by Parker Gillmore and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encounters With Wild Beasts Classic Reprint written by Parker Gillmore and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Encounters With Wild Beasts Day was but commencing to break, and I was still asleep when thus disturbed. I hurriedly pulled on my pantaloons and boots, and came forth. With the assistance of the driver, I was able to make Out the cause of the early visit. A drove of elephants had passed during the night, and the Boers wished me to accompany them in the hunt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Encounters with Wild Beasts written by Parker Gillmore and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wild Men and Wild Beasts written by Gordon Cumming and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wild Men and Wild Beasts: Scenes in Camp and Jungle AT the suggestion of friends, I have here given a short account of some of my doings during a long residence in India. The propriety of the suggestion may be doubted, but having been adopted, the book must stand for what it is worth. Tiger stories have been told before, and as I gene rally find them received with incredulity in England, it seems only fair that I should aid in establishing the veracity of my brother-sportsmen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Wild Beasts and Their Ways written by Samuel White Baker and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wild Beasts and Their Ways: Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America Forty years ago our troops were armed with a smooth-bore musket, and a small force known as the "Rifle Brigade" was the exception to this rule. The military rifle carried a spherical bullet, and, like all others of the period, it necessitated the use of a mallet to strike the ball, which, being a size larger than the bore, required the blow to force it into the rifling of the barrel in order to catch the grooves. Sporting rifles were of various sizes, but they were constructed upon a principle generally accepted, that extreme accuracy could only be obtained by burning a very small charge of powder. The outfit required a small mallet made of hardwood faced with thick buff leather, a powerful loading-rod, a powder-flask, a pouch to contain greased linen or silk patches; another pouch for percussion caps; a third pouch for bullets. In addition to this cumbersome arrangement, a nipple-screw was carried, lest any stoppage might render necessary the extraction of the nipple. The charge of powder in ordinary use for a No.16 bore (which carried an ounce spherical ball) was 1 1/2 dram, and the sights were adjusted for a maximum range of 200 yards. Although at this distance considerable accuracy could be attained at the target upon a quiet day, it was difficult to shoot with any precision at an unmeasured range owing to the high trajectory of the bullet. Thus for sporting purposes it was absolutely essential that the hunter should be a first-rate judge of distance in order to adjust the sights as required by the occasion. It was accordingly rare to meet with a good rifle-shot fifty years ago. Rifle-shooting was not the amusement sought by Englishmen, although in Switzerland and Germany it was the ordinary pastime. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Encounters with wild Beasts Illustrated etc written by Parker GILLMORE and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wild Beasts and Their Ways Vol 1 written by Samuel W. Baker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Vol. 1: Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America Many years have passed since the love of sport and natural history influenced my early life; thank God, I cannot yet exclaim, The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak, although increasing years have weighted the activity which in youth was the charm of a hunter's being. The only advantage which years possess is the long experience of the past, as theories which were uncertain have been proved by facts. When a title is worded Wild Beasts and their Ways, it may be inferred that the wild beasts are to be killed, and that we must thoroughly understand their ways before we can undertake the killing; this will involve a practical Study of natural history in the most interesting form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book On the Edge of the Wilderness written by Walter Prichard Eaton and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Edge of the Wilderness: Tales of Our Wild Animal Neighbors The author acknowledges indebtedness to more than one acquaintance for observed records of animal behavior, which he has incorporated in these tales. His thanks are especially due to William Sargood, Deputy Game Warden for Southern Berkshire (Massachusetts), to Hamilton Gibson, to Walter King Stone, and to Warwick S. Carpenter, of the New York State Conservation Commission. The primary object of the stories being, however, to reconstruct imaginatively the life of the wild creatures while they are not under observation, but living out their normal existence, the author would not seem in any way to shift the responsibility for the natural history herein contained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Beasts of the Field Classic Reprint written by William J. Long and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Beasts of the Field Wood Fol/e and Wilderness W ays, and t/ze more recent Secrets of Me Woods, many requesz's lzave come to Puolz's/zers and Aut/zor for delter and more fully illustrated edz'lz'ons of l/zese studies of life in t/ze woods and fields and fleese requests grow more and more numerous as successive editions are firm fed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Watched by Wild Animals Classic Reprint written by Enos A. Mills and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Watched by Wild Animals As I sat on a log watching two black bears playing in a woods opening, a faint crack of a stick caused me to look behind. A flock of mountain sheep were watching me only a few steps distant. A little farther away a wildcat sat on a log, also watching me. There prob ably were other watchers that I did not see. Animals use instinct and reason and also have curiosity - the desire to know. Many of the more wide-awake species do not run panic stricken from the sight or the scent of man. When it is safe they linger to watch him. They also go forth seeking him. Their keen, auto matic, constant senses detect him afar, and stealthily, sometimes for hours, they stalk, follow and watch him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Book of the Wilderness and Jungle Classic Reprint written by Frederick G. Aflalo and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Book of the Wilderness and Jungle A Book of the Wilderness and Jungle was written by Frederick G. Aflalo. This is a 367 page book, containing 78004 words and 13 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Wild Echoes written by Charles Bergman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wild Echoes, environmentalist and photographer Charles Bergman chronicles his experiences tracking down and interacting with the few remaining members of nine of North America's most endangered species. Bergman soars in the company of two of the last remaining California condors, swims with manatees, assists in the capture and release of a Florida panther, and comes face to face with the last remaining dusky seaside sparrow, a species now extinct. As he relates these and other poignant encounters, Bergman describes the factors, both manufactured and natural, that have led to the animals' endangerment. He also examines the efforts of those who hope to pull species back from the brink of extinction. Wild Echoes was originally published in 1990; this 2003 edition contains a new introduction and substantial updates on the good news and the bad concerning the current status of the species Bergman discusses.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Reference and Lending Departments African foreign and J O Smith collections written by Port Elizabeth Public Library (Port Elizabeth, South Africa) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wolf written by Nate Blakeslee and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intimate, involving story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the fabled Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her. With novelistic detail, Nate Blakeslee tells the gripping story of O-Six, a charismatic alpha female wolf. She's a kind and merciful leader, a fiercely intelligent fighter, and a doting mother. Beloved by wolf watchers, particularly Yellowstone park ranger Rick McIntyre, O-Six becomes something of a social media star, with followers around the world. But as she raises her pups and protects her pack, O-Six is being challenged on all fronts: by hunters and their professional guides, who compete with wolves for the elk they all prize; by cattle ranchers who are losing livestock and have the ear of politicians; and by other Yellowstone wolves who resent her dominance of the stunningly beautiful Lamar Valley. These forces collide in The Wolf, a riveting multigenerational wildlife saga that tells a larger story about the clash of values in the West--between those fighting for a vanishing way of life and those committed to restoring one of the country's most vibrant landscapes.
Download or read book City Creatures written by Gavin Van Horn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in collaboration with The Center for Humans and Nature"--Title page verso.
Download or read book In the Eye of the Wild written by Nastassja Martin and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far East's Kamchatka Peninsula, a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that forces her to confront the tenuous distinction between animal and human. In the Eye of the Wild begins with an account of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martin’s near fatal run-in with a Kamchatka bear in the mountains of Siberia. Martin’s professional interest is animism; she addresses philosophical questions about the relation of humankind to nature, and in her work she seeks to partake as fully as she can in the lives of the indigenous peoples she studies. Her violent encounter with the bear, however, brings her face-to-face with something entirely beyond her ken—the untamed, the nonhuman, the animal, the wild. In the course of that encounter something in the balance of her world shifts. A change takes place that she must somehow reckon with. Left severely mutilated, dazed with pain, Martin undergoes multiple operations in a provincial Russian hospital, while also being grilled by the secret police. Back in France, she finds herself back on the operating table, a source of new trauma. She realizes that the only thing for her to do is to return to Kamchatka. She must discover what it means to have become, as the Even people call it, medka, a person who is half human, half bear. In the Eye of the Wild is a fascinating, mind-altering book about terror, pain, endurance, and self-transformation, comparable in its intensity of perception and originality of style to J. A. Baker’s classic The Peregrine. Here Nastassja Martin takes us to the farthest limits of human being.
Download or read book Wild Men and Wild Beasts written by William Gordon Gordon-Cumming and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join legendary adventurer William Gordon Cumming on a thrilling journey through the wilderness of Africa as he encounters some of the most fearsome creatures on the planet. Written with wit, humor, and a deep appreciation for the natural world, Wild Men and Wild Beasts is a timeless classic of adventure literature that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
