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Excerpt from A Book of the Wilderness and JungleYet I would not have set about it if it had not seemed to fill a gap. It attempts, in fact, to be a kind of Nature-study book on the larger scale, an introduction to the study of big game in our overseas possessions. It is not merely a book of adventure with wild animals, though its pages contain many thrilling stories of actual encounters told by those who took part in them. But it aims at somet...

Excerpt from The Call of the Sea: A Prose AnthologyThe Call of the Sea has a more than abstract meaning for one in whose ears it sings all through the year, and the garnering of these extracts within a hundred yards of its surf has lent enjoy ment to the task, which has been indeed no task, but a recreation. In its original form, the collection was to have included poetry, but this was antici pated by the admirable Sailor's Garland of Mr. Mase...

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Excerpt from Sport in EuropeHorn measurements have, where available, been given in inches or centimetres, in some cases, however, the measurements could not be verified and were therefore omitted.The illustrations are either from drawings specially executed by three artists, who have made these subjects peculiarly their own, or from characteristic photographs, with which the contributors have, in many cases only by considerable labour on their...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Sunshine and Sport in Florida and the West IndiesOne aim Of this book is to set before the English angler, with some details not, I think, previously published, the practical and descriptive aspects of the increasingly popular holiday among the leaping tarpon of the Florida passes. As Of yore, fishing was the pole-star of eleven thousand miles Of travel, and when I contemplate the suggested possibility of this passion dying with t...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Sea-Fishing on the English CoastPart I. Most of all needs apology to existing writers on the subject: that apology must lie in the impossibility of omitting it, although containing but little that has not already been written.Part II. Is, I believe, on an original plan, as most writers deal very sparingly with the subject of Season.Part III., though little more than a compilation of personal experiences and letters, is undoubtedly...

Excerpt from The Sportsman's Book for IndiaAnd if the India of to-day may still claim to be reckoned very high among the sporting countries Of the world, its Opportunities forty years ago must have been fourfold.Swift, who, with all his virtues, could scarcely have been a joyous playmate, was wont to de scribe the majority of our sports and games as imitations of fighting, and it is certain that the greater part of Indian sport, as it is under...

Excerpt from A Book of Fishing StoriesFishing stories are commonly associated by facetious folk with a measure of prevarication more seductive, it may be, than downright falsehood, but no less unmoral. The fisherman is, by long usage, discredited by his neighbours, who maintain that the truth is not in him. Yet so shrewd a man as Pontius Pilate, having asked "What is truth?", departed without hearing the answer to his question, and even the mo...

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