Hunting Camps in Wood and Wilderness (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Hunting Camps in Wood and Wilderness It is some years now since I first made the acquaintance of Mr. Hesketh Prichard, who had then only just returned from his great journey through the unexplored wilds of Patagonia, a really remarkable achievement for so young a man. At that time Mr. Prichard was perhaps better known to his fellow-countrymen as a first-class cricketer and joint author with his mother of many popular works of fiction than as an explorer and hunter, and it was as a cricketer that I first came to know him at all intimately, for he was good enough during several successive seasons to bring down a team to play against the village eleven of which I was, and indeed still am, the President. In the intervals of our cricket we talked big game, and appraised the worth of the caribou and moose heads in my collection, which I had then recently brought from Newfoundland and the Yukon Territory of Canada, and Mr. Prichard's young enthusiasm, whether for cricket or big-game hunting, always did me good, and it is this same quality in the pages of the book, for which these few lines will serve as an introduction, which has given them a charm for me which I do not always find in accounts of shooting trips. I have read every chapter in this book with very great interest. 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.