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Sto caricando le informazioni... Bring 'em Back Alive (1930)di Frank Buck
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 121. Bring 'Em Back Alive, by Frank Buck with Edward Anthony (read 1943) I read this as my freshman year in high school was coming to a close. I felt the account was of much interest. ( ) A very interesting read by a man who made his living collecting animals for zoos. He was one of those larger-than-life characters, who had married young, won big money in a poker games, traveled to Brazil, found people wanted to buy those animals he collected there, AND managed to bring the animals back alive. Most animal collectors of that time didn't bring them back alive! In 1929 he lost his money, became director of the San Diego Zoo (for all of three months), and went back to collecting animals. In 1932 he joined up with Edward Anthony and co-wrote this book, Bring 'em back alive. This was a best seller, and established him as an animal expert. Eventually he worked for Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, and became a star in movies as well. An interesting book looking into the practices that went on in those days. I remember reading this in about 6th grade, and I loved it then. Unfortunately, this one has aged faster than I have! The prose sounds like the narrator on those old Pathé Newsreels that came with the movies in the 30s and 40s. Back then, I read all I could about animals, especially Africa, India, the Jungles of Asia, and Australia. Somehow, this one has lost its luster. Three stars – just for nostalgia. --Jim, 12/11/07 nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Originally published in 1930 BRING ' EM BACK ALIVE by FRANK BUCK AND EDWARD ANTHONY. Contents include: To Begin With ........ . . . . 3 CHAPTER I. Tapir on a Rampage ...... 7 II. Giant Jungle Man ....... 18 III. Tiger Revenge ........ 32 IV. Wanted: Two Rhinos ...... 48 V. Delivered: Two Rhinos ...... 61 VI. Jungle Laundress ....... 91 VII. Holter's Traps ........ 101 VIIL Chips Lends a Hand ...... 119 IX. Man-Eater ........ 130 X. Baby Boo ......... 161 XL Monkey Mothers ....... 173 XII. Ghost of Katong ....... 189 XIII. Elephant Temper ...... .200 XIV. Monkey Mischief ....... 221 XV. Loose on Board . . 2 XVI. Mouse-Deer . . W>. . . 6 . _--____, -, * XVIIL Eang Cobra ........ 272 Finally ............. 288. BRING ' EM BACK ALIVE. TO BEGIN WITH . . . It might be well to state at the outset that my aim is not to write a book that will add one more volume to the world 9 s col lection of natural histories or the existing treatises on the habits of wild animals. Whatever I have to Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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