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Title: The Book of Enterprise and Adventure
Being an Excitement to Reading. For Young People. A New and Condensed Edition.

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: February 26, 2004 [EBook #11308]

Language: English

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THE BOOK

OF

ENTERPRISE & ADVENTURE;

BEING AN

EXCITEMENT TO READING.

FOR

YOUNG PEOPLE.

A NEW AND CONDENSED EDITION.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ABSALON.

LONDON

1851.

PREFACE.

The object of this Volume is that of inducing young people to read, to
cultivate in them a habit of reading and reflection, and to excite the
imagination, the feelings, and the better emotions of their nature in a
pleasurable and judicious manner.

The pieces selected are such as will be likely to exert a beneficial
influence upon the reader, to inspire him with heroic enthusiasm, and to
lead him to despise danger.

In our perpetually migrating population, no one can tell who will not be
called upon to brave the vicissitudes of "flood and field;" and to show
how perils may be surmounted, and privations endured with energy and
patience, is to teach no unimportant lesson.

Nothing whatever has been introduced into this Volume, but such subjects
as will teach a dependence upon Divine Providence, in aid of
self-reliance and self-sacrifice, while details of war and bloodshed
have been studiously avoided.

THE EDITOR.

CONTENTS.

ARABIAN HOSPITALITY, ETC.
HOSPITALITY OF THE ARAB
HORRORS OF AFRICAN WARFARE
CROCODILE SHOOTING

REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF COURAGE IN A LADY

INDIAN FIELD SPORTS--
METHOD OF CATCHING BIRDS
THE HYENA
THE BEAR
SAGACITY OF THE ELEPHANT
ANECDOTES OF THE TIGER

DEATH OF SIR JOHN MOORE

PERSIAN TYRANNY

SKETCHES IN VIRGINIA--
ROCK BRIDGE
WIER'S CAVE

THE CHRISTIAN SLAVE

VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE IN CALABRIA

ESCAPE FROM A SHIP ON FIRE

ANECDOTES, ETC.--
THE ALBATROSS
VISIT TO A PENGUIN ROOKE