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Book Synopsis The Gorilla Hunters (Musaicum Adventure Classics) by : R. M. Ballantyne
Download or read book The Gorilla Hunters (Musaicum Adventure Classics) written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa follows the adventure of three young men in "darkest Africa." Ralph Rover is living on his father's inheritance on England's west coast and occupying himself as a naturalist. He gets visited by his old friend Peterkin Gay, whose "weather-beaten though ruddy countenance" he does not recognize. Peterkin has hunted and killed every animal on Earth except for the gorilla and now comes to Ralph to entice him on a new adventure. The two are joined by the third friend, Jack Martin, and they leave for Africa.
Book Synopsis The Coral Island & The Gorilla Hunters (Musaicum Adventure Classics) by : R. M. Ballantyne
Download or read book The Coral Island & The Gorilla Hunters (Musaicum Adventure Classics) written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean" relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island. The story is told from the perspective of 15-year-old Ralph Rover, one of three boys shipwrecked on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island. Ralph and his two companions – 18-year-old Jack Martin and 13-year-old Peterkin Gay – are the sole survivors of the shipwreck. At first, boys have to manage how to feed themselves, what to drink, and how the resolve clothing and shelter, coping with having to rely on their own resources. As the boys adopt to the situation, they start dealing with new difficulties, such as conflicting with pirates, fighting with native Polynesians, and dealing with Christian missionaries and their conversion efforts. "The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa" is a sequel to The Coral Island set in "darkest Africa", and it follows the further adventures of Ralph Rover, Peterkin Gay and Jack Martin. After their adventures in the South Sea Islands, Jack, Ralph, and Peterkin go their separate ways. Six years later, Ralph, living on his father's inheritance on England's west coast and occupying himself as a naturalist, is visited by Peterkin, whose "weather-beaten though ruddy countenance" he does not recognise. Peterkin, who has stayed in touch with Jack, has hunted and killed every animal on Earth except for the gorilla and now comes to Ralph to entice him on a new adventure. After Peterkin writes him a letter, Jack joins the two, and they leave for Africa.
Book Synopsis The Gorilla Hunters by : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Download or read book The Gorilla Hunters written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by London : T. Nelson. This book was released on 1861 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Gorilla Hunters (Esprios Classics) by : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Download or read book The Gorilla Hunters (Esprios Classics) written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Michael Ballantyne (24 April 1825 - 8 February 1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books. He was also an accomplished artist, and exhibited some of his water-colours at the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1848 he published his first book Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America, and for some time was employed by the publishers Messrs Constable. In 1856 he gave up business to focus on his literary career, and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated.
Book Synopsis The Romance of Words by : Ernest Weekley
Download or read book The Romance of Words written by Ernest Weekley and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romance of Words, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Book Synopsis The Gorilla Hunters ( Illustrated ) by : R. M. Ballantyne
Download or read book The Gorilla Hunters ( Illustrated ) written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gorilla Hunters ( illustrated ) book provides a reader with illustrations to interact with R.M. Ballantyne Adventure novel.The reader can appreciate the novel with striking illustrations. Cover illustration was inspired by artists for added interest the reader to know the end of the story H. Beam Piper novel.Cover illustration produced by the passage, "The book's themes are similar to those of The Coral Island, in which the boys testify to the positive influence of missionary work among the natives. Central in the novel is the hunt for gorillas, an animal until recently unknown to the Western world, which came to play an important role in contemporary debates on evolution and the relation between white Westerners and Africans ".There are a few illustrations have been made to make this a really interesting Adventure and Juvenile fiction . The editor also believe that illustrations can help reader develop critical thinking skills, as their brains take in the illustrations and the text and make connections between the two.When reader read books with illustrations, they are able to envision the story in a way that helps them relate to the characters.Illustrations also enable the reader to explore the world within their imagination and make connections between what they have just read and a visual image. When a reader connects what they have read with pictures, it can make the book more real to them.Illustrations are powerful ways of helping this Juvenile fiction novel come alive.NOTE: - The new structure of chapter headings in the novel. They are added here by the editor to assist the reader.- This Book follows the original text.The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa (1861) is a boys' adventure novel by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. A sequel to his hugely successful 1858 novel The Coral Island and set in "darkest Africa", its main characters are the earlier novel's three boys: Ralph, Peterkin and Jack. The book's themes are similar to those of The Coral Island, in which the boys testify to the positive influence of missionary work among the natives. Central in the novel is the hunt for gorillas, an animal until recently unknown to the Western world, which came to play an important role in contemporary debates on evolution and the relation between white Westerners and Africans
Book Synopsis The Coral Island & The Gorilla Hunters by : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Download or read book The Coral Island & The Gorilla Hunters written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean" relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island. The story is told from the perspective of 15-year-old Ralph Rover, one of three boys shipwrecked on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island. Ralph and his two companions - 18-year-old Jack Martin and 13-year-old Peterkin Gay - are the sole survivors of the shipwreck. At first, boys have to manage how to feed themselves, what to drink, and how the resolve clothing and shelter, coping with having to rely on their own resources. As the boys adopt to the situation, they start dealing with new difficulties, such as conflicting with pirates, fighting with native Polynesians, and dealing with Christian missionaries and their conversion efforts. "The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa" is a sequel to The Coral Island set in "darkest Africa", and it follows the further adventures of Ralph Rover, Peterkin Gay and Jack Martin. After their adventures in the South Sea Islands, Jack, Ralph, and Peterkin go their separate ways. Six years later, Ralph, living on his father's inheritance on England's west coast and occupying himself as a naturalist, is visited by Peterkin, whose "weather-beaten though ruddy countenance" he does not recognise. Peterkin, who has stayed in touch with Jack, has hunted and killed every animal on Earth except for the gorilla and now comes to Ralph to entice him on a new adventure. After Peterkin writes him a letter, Jack joins the two, and they leave for Africa.
Book Synopsis The Gorilla Hunters by : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Download or read book The Gorilla Hunters written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa (1861) is a boys' adventure novel by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. A sequel set in "darkest Africa" to his hugely successful 1858 novel The Coral Island, its main characters are the earlier novel's three boys. The book's themes are similar to those of The Coral Island, in which the boys testify to the positive influence of missionary work among the natives. Central in the novel is the hunt for gorillas, an animal newly known to the Western world, that came to play an important role in contemporary debates on evolution and the relation between white Westerners and Africans
Book Synopsis The Gorilla Hunters by : R. M. Ballantyne
Download or read book The Gorilla Hunters written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa (1861) is a boys' adventure novel by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. A sequel to his hugely successful 1858 novel The Coral Island and set in "darkest Africa", its main characters are the earlier novel's three boys: Ralph, Peterkin and Jack. The book's themes are similar to those of The Coral Island, in which the boys testify to the positive influence of missionary work among the natives. Central in the novel is the hunt for gorillas, an animal until recently unknown to the Western world, which came to play an important role in contemporary debates on evolution and the relation between white Westerners and Africans.Hunting gorillas is taboo today, but in Ballantyne's day was not. The author acknowledges within the scope of the story the hypocracy of killing in order to study nature. This classic hunting story stands as an account of an exciting African adventure, anyway.The gorilla, knowledge of which was first spread in Europe in 1847, was responsible for further speculation in England about the evolutionary status of humans. In fact, many exploratory accounts by Westerners, as was argued by Jennifer Dickenson, "are permeated with 'gothic tropes-boundary transgressions, dark doubles, haunting pasts, and threats of regression-in order to play upon Victorian anxieties about the origins of man' in the aftermath of the publication of Darwin's The Origin of Species" (quoted in Giles-Vernick and Rupp). The arrival in England of Paul Du Chaillu, an anthropologist who had observed and studied gorillas in West Africa, prompted great public interest in the relation between gorillas and humans. Ballantyne was so "stimulated" by Du Chaillu's work (his direct inspiration) that he published two novels in 1861 dealing with gorillas, The Red Eric and The Gorilla Hunters. The idea of an imaginary double consisting of gorilla and hunter most likely resulted from the work of American missionary and naturalist Thomas S. Savage, who was the first (with Jeffries Wyman) to name the animal, in 1847, and explicitly set it in opposition to the hunter:They are exceedingly ferocious, and always offensive in their habits, never running from man as does the Chimpanzee ... The hunter awaits his approach with his gun extended; if his aim is not sure he permits the animal to grasp the barrel, and as he carries it to his mouth (which is his habit) he fires; should the gun fail to go off, the barrel (that of an ordinary musket, which is thin) is crushed between his teeth, and the encounter soon proves fatal to the hunter.It was this image of the gorilla that became "a staple of adventure fiction", including Du Chaillu's works and Ballantyne's The Gorilla Hunters.[9] As John Miller argues, the figures of the hunter and the gorilla occur in a kind of doubling prevalent in Victorian primatology, and especially The Gorilla Hunters: "this complex relation perhaps most forcefully articulates post-Darwinian anxieties about the fixity of species and the meaning and status of humanity".Ballantyne already made some errors in his descriptions of nature in The Coral Island, and had apparently resolved whenever possible to write only about things of which he had personal experience.[10] Still, his gorillas are portrayed as dangerous man-eaters, snapping "great branches" in two while pursued by hunters; as a gorilla nutritionist said "that [Ballantyne's] fictional gorilla likely would have been peacefully nibbling on the branches' leaves". Ballantyne's gorilla, on the contrary, is a "man monkey ... a very unnatural monster".
Book Synopsis The Gorilla Hunters by : Rm Ballantyne
Download or read book The Gorilla Hunters written by Rm Ballantyne and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa (1861) is a boys' adventure novel[1] by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. A sequel to his hugely successful 1858 novel The Coral Island and set in "darkest Africa,"[2] its main characters are the earlier novel's three boys: Ralph, Peterkin and Jack. The book's themes are similar to those of The Coral Island, in which the boys testify to the positive influence of missionary work among the natives. Central in the novel is the hunt for gorillas, an animal until recently unknown to the Western world, which came to play an important role in contemporary debates on evolution and the relation between white Westerners and Africans
Book Synopsis The Gorilla Hunters by : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Download or read book The Gorilla Hunters written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete and unabridged paperback edition. The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa (1861) is a boys' adventure novel by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. A sequel to his hugely successful 1858 novel The Coral Island and set in "darkest Africa", its main characters are the earlier novel's three boys: Ralph, Peterkin and Jack. The book's themes are similar to those of The Coral Island, in which the boys testify to the positive influence of missionary work among the natives. Central in the novel is the hunt for gorillas, an animal until recently unknown to the Western world, which came to play an important role in contemporary debates on evolution and the relation between white Westerners and Africans. Description from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Book Synopsis The Gorilla Hunters by : R. M. Ballantyne
Download or read book The Gorilla Hunters written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa It was five o'clock in the afternoon. There can be no doubt whatever as to that. Old Agnes may say what she pleases, - she has a habit of doing so; but I know for certain (because I looked at my watch not ten minutes before it happened) that it was exactly five o'clock in the afternoon, when I received a most singular and every way remarkable visit - a visit which has left an indelible impression on my memory, as well it might, for, independent of its singularity and unexpectedness, one of its results was the series of strange adventures which are faithfully detailed in this volume. It happened thus: - I was seated in an arm chair in my private study in a small town on the west coast of England. It was a splendid afternoon, and it was exactly five o'clock. Mark that. Not that there is anything singular about the mere fact - neither is it in any way mixed up with the thread of this tale; but old Agnes is very obstinate - singularly positive - and I have a special desire that she should see it in print, that I have not given in on that point. Yes, it was five precisely, and a beautiful evening. I was ruminating, as I frequently do, on the pleasant memories of bygone days, especially the happy days that I spent long ago among the coral islands of the Pacific, when a tap at the door aroused me. 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.
Book Synopsis The Gorilla Hunters by : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Download or read book The Gorilla Hunters written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting sequel to The Coral Island, Ballantyne continues the story of Ralph Rover, Jack Martin, and Peterkin Gay who, after their return to England for rest from their South Seas adventures, are now intent on joining the great hunters in Africa for a journey to the interior of the Dark Continent. In the course of their safari adventures, Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin fight with savages, hunt elephants and gorillas, and visit native tribes. Peterkin gets thrown by a wild African buffalo, and Ralph is hugged by a gorilla. Find out how their excursion concludes and whether they all survive the African journey!
Book Synopsis The Gorilla Hunters by : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Download or read book The Gorilla Hunters written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa (1861) is a boys' adventure novel by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. A sequel to his hugely successful 1858 novel The Coral Island and set in "darkest Africa", its main characters are the earlier novel's three boys: Ralph, Peterkin and Jack. The book's themes are similar to those of The Coral Island, in which the boys testify to the positive influence of missionary work among the natives. Central in the novel is the hunt for gorillas, an animal until recently unknown to the Western world, which came to play an important role in contemporary debates on evolution and the relation between white Westerners and Africans.
Book Synopsis The Gorilla Hunters by : R. M. Ballantyne
Download or read book The Gorilla Hunters written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa follows the adventure of three young men in "darkest Africa." Ralph Rover is living on his father's inheritance on England's west coast and occupying himself as a naturalist. He gets visited by his old friend Peterkin Gay, whose "weather-beaten though ruddy countenance" he does not recognize. Peterkin has hunted and killed every animal on Earth except for the gorilla and now comes to Ralph to entice him on a new adventure. The two are joined by the third friend, Jack Martin, and they leave for Africa.
Book Synopsis Daughter of the Land by : Gene Stratton-Porter
Download or read book Daughter of the Land written by Gene Stratton-Porter and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Farm life; Sex role; Indiana; Fiction / Action
Book Synopsis The Gorilla Hunters by : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Download or read book The Gorilla Hunters written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
