Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from At Home in the Wilderness, What to Do There and How to Do It: A Handbook for Travellers and Emigrants
T he experience of twenty years passed as a rambler in various parts of the world, though principally as trapper, hunter, and naturalist, East and West of the Rocky Mountains, enables me to state from actual observation, that a green hand, ' to use a slang term, on his first visit to a wild country, in nine cases out of ten arrives from the land of civilisation completely hampered, entangled, and weighed down, so to speak, with a medley of utterly useless things, which he never would have purchased had he been guided or.
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