Incidents of Foreign Sport and Travel (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Incidents of Foreign Sport and Travel (Classic Reprint) written by Pollok Pollok and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Incidents of Foreign Sport and Travel The Incidents related in this work have been put together, as a guide to the numerous class of sportsmen, who, year by year, go abroad in search of game. Very many men lose their lives yearly, simply from a superabundance of pluck; and the want of training in wild sports, which is as necessary to a successful hunter as learning A B C is to a youth prior to reading and writing. There is no royal road to learning, nor can a man become a proficient as a hunter who has not acquired the knack. By undergoing a great deal of toil; for experience is only learnt after years of practice. 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.