Author: Pollok PollokPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484260756
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Excerpt from Incidents of Foreign Sport and Travel The Incidents related in this work have been put together, as a guide to the numerous class of sportsmen, who, year by year, go abroad in search of game. Very many men lose their lives yearly, simply from a superabundance of pluck; and the want of training in wild sports, which is as necessary to a successful hunter as learning A B C is to a youth prior to reading and writing. There is no royal road to learning, nor can a man become a proficient as a hunter who has not acquired the knack. By undergoing a great deal of toil; for experience is only learnt after years of practice. 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.
