Scenes With the Hunter and the Trapper in Many Lands: Or Stories of Adventures With Wild Animals

by William Henry Davenport Adams

Excerpt from Scenes With the Hunter and the Trapper in Many Lands: Or Stories of Adventures With Wild Animals
So long as the boys of Great Britain retain anything of the old traditional spirit, so long will they take a pleasure in the perusal of narratives of "action and adventure." And it is well that they should learn to admire - though not with an exaggerated admiration - the coolness of nerve, the presence of mind, the steady resolution, the fearlessness of danger, which enable men to accomplish deeds of gallantry, whether "by flood or field." The qualities which distinguish the successful hunter, are those which win renown for the successful warrior. Both must have a keen eye, a firm and ready hand, a healthy frame; and both must have the capability of enduring hardship, the patience to bide their time, adequate fertility of resource, and the mental calmness which no sudden peril disturbs. I do not say these are the highest qualities of humanity, but certainly they are foremost in the second rank; and the ancient Greeks regarded them as necessary to their ideal of the perfect man. The hunter is sometimes represented as a bloodthirsty savage, going to and fro in search of what he may devour.
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320 pages, Paperback

First published March 4, 2009

About the author

William Henry Davenport Adams (1828 – 1891), was an English writer and journalist of the 19th century, notable for a number of his publications. Father of William Davenport Adams and Ellinor Davenport Adams.

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