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An adventure with the Apaches
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
1 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 1900
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March 10, 2019
Every once in awhile it is nice to find a book that has no reviews or ratings on GoodReads, and fill in the void. Such was the case with this little book from the 1800s. The author - Eugene Louis Gabriel Ferry de Bellemare ... or Gabriel Ferry for short - was a French explorer/writer who came to North America in the middle 1800s. He spent 10 years traveling through Mexico and wrote a number of short books on his adventures - thus "An Adventure with the Apaches." Undoubtedly a work of fiction based loosely on his experiences, this little book was a delight to read. This tale would be classified as Young Adult fare ... teens and up.
The tale involves three men - a Canadian and two Mexicans - getting themselves into a fix with a band of Apaches. The whole story is how they got into trouble and tried to extricate themselves from same. Being written by a white man in the 1800s the language certainly carries racial overtones, but the storyline is not ruined by the slips. Weighing in at only 150 very small pages, this is a two-hour read.
The author was born in 1809 and died in 1852. This book was published in 1900 as a first printing, so it is probably the first printing of the translation ... presuming Gabriel Ferry wrote in his native French language. All-in-all, nice little change of pace.
The tale involves three men - a Canadian and two Mexicans - getting themselves into a fix with a band of Apaches. The whole story is how they got into trouble and tried to extricate themselves from same. Being written by a white man in the 1800s the language certainly carries racial overtones, but the storyline is not ruined by the slips. Weighing in at only 150 very small pages, this is a two-hour read.
The author was born in 1809 and died in 1852. This book was published in 1900 as a first printing, so it is probably the first printing of the translation ... presuming Gabriel Ferry wrote in his native French language. All-in-all, nice little change of pace.
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