Bring 'em Back Alive: The Best of Frank Buck

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Texas Tech University Press, 2000 - 248 σελίδες
“Picture a cross between Clark Gable and that excitable Australian fellow who frolics with alligators on cable TV, and you get something of a picture of Frank Buck.” —San Antonio Express-News. “Fans remember [Buck] as a devoted conservationist—Buck fretted often about the survival of rare species—and intrepid adventurer, whose deeds in Sumatra, Borneo, India and the Philippines wowed folks at home.” —Newsday. “Good, old-fashioned, movie-serial-type adventures in wild, exotic settings.” —Dallas Morning News. “All in all, this is an extremely entertaining book, illustrating a different time and written in a way that brings that time to life.” —Choice. “That this hardy Texan’s celebrity was earned is made evident in a new version of Bring ‘Em Back Alive, . . . a compilation of exciting and often chilling first-person adventures.” —East Texas Historical Association Journal. Frank Buck spent his life capturing alive every kind of animal, from birds to snakes to elephants. The intrepid Texas animal collector and jungle adventurer enthralled generations of readers and moviegoers with the stories of danger and daring collected here.
 

Περιεχόμενα

TAPIR ON A RAMPAGE
3
GIANT JUNGLE MAN
12
JUNGLE LAUNDRESS
31
CHIPS LENDS A HAND
40
MANEATER
50
BABY BOO
69
MONKEY MOTHERS
80
ELEPHANT TEMPER
94
THE PATSY
150
CHAPTER XIII KILLER OF KILLERS
162
A BEAR IN TIME
177
SPITTING COBRA
186
ANIMAL MAGIC
195
COILED LIGHTNING
207
CHAPTER XVIII TERRIBLE TUSKS
219
STRIPED DEMON
229

MONKEY MISCHIEF
113
LOOSE ON BOARD
124
KING COBRA
137

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Σελίδα xiii - The Wolves are a free people," said Father Wolf. "They take orders from the Head of the Pack, and not from any striped cattle-killer. The man's cub is ours — to kill if we choose." "Ye choose and ye do not choose! What talk is this of choosing? By the Bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog's den for my fair dues? It is I, Shere Khan, who speak!
Σελίδα xiv - ... and brought him all the news that a python of his size would naturally hear. What Kaa did not know about the Middle Jungle, as they call it, — the life that runs close to the earth or under it, the boulder, burrow, and the tree-bole life, — might have been written upon the smallest of his scales. That afternoon Mowgli was sitting in the circle of Kaa's great coils, fingering the flaked and broken old skin that lay all looped and twisted among the rocks 121 just as Kaa had left it. Kaa had...

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