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“john lyle king”

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  • Trouting on the Brulé River: Or Summer-Wayfaring in the Northern Wilderness

    by John Lyle King ...
    John Lyle King's Trouting on the Brulé River is a delightful blend of travelogue, fishing memoir, and pastoral meditation set against the pristine backdrop of the Brulé River in Wisconsin's Northwoods. Written in the late 19th century, the book recounts the author's summer adventures in fly-fishing, camp life, and wilderness wandering, capturing both the joy of sport and the deeper solace of ... Read more

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  • A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Warbler Classics)

    by Isabella L. Bird ...
    Isabella Bird traveled by horseback from Truckee, California, through the Tahoe Basin and on to Colorado where, during the autumn and early winter of 1873, she explored more than eight hundred miles of Rocky Mountain terrain only recently opened to pioneer settlement. Riding not sidesaddle but frontwards like a man (though she threatened to sue the Times for saying she dressed like one), she ... Read more

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  • The Men of the Last Frontier

    by Grey Owl ...
    “The Men of the Last Frontier” is a 1922 work by Grey Owl. Part memoir, part chronicle of the vanishing Canadian wilderness, and part collection First Nations lore and stories. His first book, “The Men of the Last Frontier” is an impassioned cry for the conservation of the natural world that is as poignent now as when first published. Archibald Stansfeld Belaney (1888–1938), also known as Grey Owl ... Read more

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  • Tales Of An Empty Cabin

    by Grey Owl ...
    Originally published in 1936, this classic collection of Canadian yarns harkens to a simpler time, a time when we were closer to the natural world around us. It is a celebration of the pure delight of storytelling, and of the bounty of the land.Grey Owl was both a hearty outdoorsman and a skilled raconteur, and his stories of life in the bush, so beloved by readers then and now, are the perfect ... Read more

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  • Life with the Greenland Esquimaux, Illustrated

    by W P Snow ...
    A journey to the home of the Esquimaux in Greenland during the mid Nineteenth Century exploring the Native customs and habits. ... Read more

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  • Adventures in the Rocky Mountains

    by Isabella Bird ...
    Endlessly restless and endlessly curious, Isabella Bird (1831-1904) travelled the world looking for new experiences, but never more delightfully than in her pony-bound adventures in the Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities. A vanished world of grizzly hunters, cowboys, isolated cabins and plagues of rattlesnakes is here beautifully ... Read more

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  • Hudson Bay

    by R. M. Ballantyne ...
    Originally published in 1848, 'Hudson Bay' was author R.M. Ballantyne's first published book. Rather than a story for children, for which he was later best-known, this is his account of his time working and adventuring in Canada during his youth. R.M. Ballantyne worked for the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada from the age of 16 – travelling around remote parts of the country to trade furs. This book ... Read more

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  • A Lady's Life In The Rocky Mountains

    by Isabella L. Bird ...
    Series Book 789 - Virago Modern Classics
    'There never was anybody who had adventures as well as Miss Bird' SPECTATOR'Venture deep into the Colorado wilderness, and you will find her long-lasting legacy in the community of people choosing to live a life without limits' RUBY WAX, GUARDIAN'This book is an unputdownable record of a truly astounding journey' DERVLA MURPHY, IRISH TIMESBorn in 1831, Isabella, daughter of a clergyman, se... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada

    by Clarence King ...
    Mountaineers will realize, from these descriptions of Sierra climbs, how few dangers we encountered which might not have been avoided by time and caution. Since the uncertain perils of glacier work and snow copings do not exist in California, except on the northeast flank of Mount Shasta, our climbs proved safe and easy in comparison with the more serious Alpine ascents. And now that the ... Read more

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  • By Ox Team to California

    Crossing the Plains in 1860

    by Lavinia Honeyman Porter ...
    "...we had youth in our favor, and an indomitable will to succeed, and I have since learned by experience that a kind providence watches over fools and children."So begins Lavinia Honeyman Porter in her true tale about emigrating to the American west in 1860, a woman barely twenty, from a privileged background, with a husband hardly older and who was no more suited for wilderness adventures.It is ... Read more

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  • Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska

    Journey through the Untamed West and Alaskan Wilderness

    by Charles Warren Stoddard ...
    In "Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska," Charles Warren Stoddard presents a vibrant and eloquent travel narrative that chronicles his journey through the majestic landscapes of the American West. Combining evocative descriptions with personal anecdotes, Stoddard captures the diverse natural beauty and the cultural richness he encountered, reflecting both the romanticism of 19th-century exploration ... Read more

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  • With the World's Great Travellers (Complete)

    by Various Authors ...
    Next to actual travel, the reading of first-class travel stories by men and women of genius is the finest aid to the broadening of views and enlargement of useful knowledge of men and the world’s ways. It is the highest form of intellectual recreation, with the advantage over fiction-reading of satisfying the wholesome desire for facts. With all our modern enthusiasm for long journeys and foreign ... Read more

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