Nimrod In The North Or Hunting And Fishing Adventures In The Arctic Regions Classic Reprint

Download or read book Nimrod in the North, Or Hunting and Fishing Adventures in the Arctic Regions (Classic Reprint) written by Frederick Schwatka and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nimrod in the North, or Hunting and Fishing Adventures in the Arctic Regions In writing of Nimrod in the North, the author has confined himself almost exclusively to such scenes and adventures as came Within his personal knowledge a few years since, in the region north of Hudson's Bay, and, more recently, in the interior of Alaska. He has sought at the same time, however, to describe in a general way the life Of the sportsman in the Polar wast-e -his trials and his triumphs, his cares and his comforts, his camps and his sledges, his singular native allies and their ingenious weapons Of the chase, and (above all) the animals he may pursue - or that may pursue him, - and in doing so has added a yery few interesting hunting anecdotes from the Arctic works of others. 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.