Adventures on the Great Rivers: Romantic Incidents and Perils of Travel, Sport, and Exploration Throughout the World (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Richard Stead

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ISBN 10 : 1331253365 ISBN 13 : 9781331253365

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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The adventures met with on great rivers by travellers and big-game hunters, and especially by explorers, are wonderful in their variety. And as a matter of fact, each zone of the earth seems to have its peculiar difficulties and dangers. In tropical regions there are the larger and more formidable wild beasts to encounter, the lion, the tiger, the elephant, the hippopotamus, or the rhinoceros in the Old World, the puma, the jaguar, and what not in the New. As for the insects, and the creeping and crawling things innumerable, their attacks are so incessant, so determined, and so exasperating, that it is a question whether these smaller pests are not more to be dreaded than the bigger and apparently more dangerous beasts that roam the forests and plains, or infest the rivers and their banks. Then there is the whole family of deadly snakes to be reckoned with, and, by river travellers, the crocodile and the rest of the amphibious of streamhaunting reptiles. The Arctic and sub-A rctic districts have their own dangers, the cold, the frozen torrent, the ice-floe, the scarcity, the starvation even. And the more temperate zones not seldom bring difficulties and risks to the adventurous traveller or the hunter.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331253365
• ISBN 13: 9781331253365
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 372
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