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An 1872 account by an Irish officer in the British army, covering his travels in Canada and American frontier territory.

Abenteuer im Spielzeugland (USA 1934, ca. 81 Min., FSK 6)In diesem märchenhaften Musical leben Stan Dum und Ollie Dee im Spielzeugland und wohnen bei Witwe Peep und deren schöner Tochter Bo-Peep zur Untermiete in einem Schuh. Der bösartige alte Barnaby besitzt eine Hypothek auf Witwe Peeps Haus, die er ihr nur erlassen will, wenn ihre Tochter ihn heiratet. Um der Witwe Peep zu helfen, bitten Stan und Ollie, die in einer Spielzeugfabrik arbeite...

Excerpt from The Wild North Land: The Story of a Winter Journey, With Dogs, Across Northern North America As this matter of Object, then, seems to be a rule with travellers, it may be asked by those who read this book, what Object had the writer in undertaking a journey across the snowy wilder ness of North America, in winter and alone? I fear there is no answer to be given to the ques tion, save such as may be found in the motto on the title...

Excerpt from The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North West of America The Great Lone Land is no sensational name. The North-west fulfils, at the present time, every essential of that title There is no other portion of the globe in which travel is possible where loneliness can be said to live so thoroughly. One may wander 500 miles in a direct line without seeing a human being, or an animal larger than a wolf. And ...

Excerpt from Red Cloud: A Tale of the Great Prairie When I was ordered out on active service to Ashanti, on the Gold Coast of Africa, I got hold of any books I could find on that country in order to learn something about it before I went there. One of these books was called T ize Story of a Failure. It was by Sir William Butler, the brilliant General and writer of Red Cloud. The story was the story of his own failure, in a previous campaign i...

Excerpt from Far Out: Rovings Retold I have been told that an introductory chapter is necessary ere the scattered papers of travel which are here brought together can be taken from the lower region of magazine literature, in which they have hitherto had existence, and, with a title bestowed upon them, be elevated or "shelved" into the upper world of books. I feel convinced, however, that no amount of preface, introductory chapter, or other p...

Excerpt from Charles George Gordon Gordon - "Spear, " the first weapon shaped by man to aid his fight with nature, and give him dominion over the wild things of plain and forest: the emblem of highest rank among the old Norse gods, held in the right hand of Odin: the weapon of sacrifice among those dim Celtic tribes whose existence is all but lost in the dawn of history - a name that goes back beyond history and beyond even tradition, into da...

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