Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Engineer, or How to Travel in the Woods
This book is intended to teach'you how hunters, emigrants, and travelers manage in the long journeys they have to take in the Wild regions of the Western country of America, Where there are no roads, no towns, and no civilized people. The parties, large and small, that are continually moving to and fro over those vast regions, are innumerable, and they are increasing every year; and it is very interesting to us, as we sit by our quiet firesides at home on the Winter evenings, to read of their adventures, and of the va rions means and contrivances Which they resort to in the absence of all the usual comforts and conveniences of civilized life. At least, Bell, Stanley, and Dorie were much interested in looking at the drawings Which their father made for them, and in hearing his explanations of them; and I hepe the readers of the Story Books may be interested too, in perusing the conversations and looking at the engravings as they are reproduced here. I.
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