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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Publisher: Chicago H.S. StonePublication date: 1897Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Publisher: [Chicago] H.S. StonePublication date: 1896Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1903Original Publisher: R.H. RussellSubjects: Tobacco useSmoking in artFiction / LiteraryHistory / GeneralHistory / Australia ... Read more

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1914. Ade, American humorist and dramatist, uses fables to deliver his observations on various topics including urbanization, education, sports, automobiles, salesmanship, the workingman's world, the shopkeeper, relationships and the dreams of youth. His view is that of a man who was born and raised in west Indiana farm country just after the Civil War, and who became a big city newspaper columnist, a successful playwright, world traveler and national celebrity. Sprinkled throughout Ade's fables are references to contemporary persons and events whose significance might escape the modern reader. ... Read more

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CHAPTER I
THE PREPARATIO~ FOR DEPARTUR£. EXPERIENCES
'VITH 'VILLlNG FRIE~DS A...~D ADVISERS
EVER since I can renlember, almost, I have cherished
a modest ambition to hunt lions and elephants.
At an early age, or, to be more exact, at about that
age which finds nlost boys wondering whether they
would rather be Indian fighters or sailors, I ran
across a copy of Stanley's Through the Dark Con~
tinent. It was full of fascinating adventures. I
thrilled at the accotults which spoke in terms of easy
familiarity of "express" rifles and "elephant" guns,
and in nly vivid but nlisguided imagination, I pictured
an elephant gun as a sort of cannon-a huge,
unwieldy arquebus-that fired a ponderous shell.
The old woodcuts of daring hunters and charging
lions inspired me with unrest and longing-the
longing to bid the farnl farewell and start down tile
road for Africa. Africa 1 lVhat a pictllle it conjured
up in my fancyl Then, as even now, it symbolized
a world of adventurous

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CHAPTER ONE PAGE; The Preparation for Deparhue Experlen~eg with WUling; Friends and Advisers 1; CHAPTER TWO; The First Half ()f the Voynge From Naples to the Red Sea; with a Few Side-Lights on Indian Oce'lD Trayel 13; CHAPTER THREE; The Island of ~lomb,'Sa, with the Jungle~ of tquatorial Africa; "Only :l Few Blocks Away:' A Story of the World's Champion; Man-Eating Lions 28; CHAPTER FOUR; On the Edge of the Athi PlaiDS, Fare to Face with Herds of; Wild Game Up in B l3alloon at Nairobi 43; CHAPTER FIVE; Into the Heart of the Dig Game Country with f1 Retinue of; llol'e Than One Hundred Natives A Safari and -1lat It Is 65; CHAPTER SIX; A Lion Dri~e With n Rhino in ... Read more

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John T. McCutcheon, a reporter and sketch artist, accompanied his close friend and reporter Edward W. Harden to the Far East, where they joined Commodore George Dewey’s Asiatic Squadron. McCutcheon was an eye witness to the battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898. In this article he recounts the “Taking of Manila” by U.S. forces under the command of Admiral Dewey and Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt on August 13, 1898. ... Read more

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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1914. Ade, American humorist and dramatist, uses fables to deliver his observations on various topics including urbanization, education, sports, automobiles, salesmanship, the workingman's world, the shopkeeper, relationships and the dreams of youth. His view is that of a man who was born and raised in west Indiana farm country just after the Civil War, and who became a big city newspaper columnist, a successful playwright, world traveler and national celebrity. Sprinkled throughout Ade's fables are references to contemporary persons and events whose significance might escape the modern reader. ... Read more