The Adventures of a Nature Guide (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Adventures of a Nature Guide The individual interested in the world of outdoors in many sided natural history finds entertainment everywhere in the wilderness through all the seasons Storm sunshine night desert stream and forest are crowded with waiting attractions and moving scenes To have the most adventures and the greatest enjoyment in a given time ramble the wilds alone and without a fishing rod or a gun The rambler is free to wander afar and to enjoy the multitude of adventures that come thick and fast upon him The wilderness being the safety zone of the world these experiences are likely to be less dangerous than staying at home The hunter however armed and killing multiplies dangers and in giving his attention to game wanders but little and enjoys less variety and fewer adventures The chapters in this book are filled with the experiences and adventures which came to me as a solitary and unarmed camper in the wilds of the continent These and other experiences together with inheritances not so tangible produced definite results I became a mountain climber and a peak guide In doing this I developed nature guiding that is helping people to become happily acquainted with the life and wonders of wild nature 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