“Life at its beginning and its end is bounded by a haunted wood. When no one is watching, children creep back to it to play with the fairies and to listen to the angels’ footsteps. As the road of their journey lengthens, they return more rarely. Remembering less and less, they build themselves cities of imperative endeavor. But at night the wood comes marching to their walls, tall trees moving silently as clouds and little trees treading softly. The green host halts and calls—in the voice of memory, poetry, religion, legend, or, as the Greeks put it, in the faint pipes and stampeding feet of Pan.”
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Through the Brazilian Wilderness
By THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Here is Colonel Roosevelt’s own vivid narrative of his explorations in South America; his adventures on the famous “River of Doubt,” his visits to remote tribes of naked and wholly barbarous Indians, his 500-mile journey on mule-back across the height of the land between the river systems of Paraguay and the Amazon, his observations on the most brilliant and varied bird life of the South American tropics; hunting of the jaguar, the tapir, the peccary, the giant ant-eater, and other unusual animals of the jungle; all of this varied panorama is depicted in the author’s most graphic and picturesque style, full of the joy of new adventures. The book is a permanent addition to the literature of exploration.
Profusely illustrated. $3.50 net; postage extra.
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