Thomas Wallace Knox
Published: 2016-09-24
Total Pages: 344
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Excerpt from In Wild Africa: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey Through the Sahara Desert Edward, the latter a bright, intelligent youth seventeen years of age, and better known as Ned. Mr. Whitney was a bachelor, and had a great fondness for travel and exploration. He had visited all parts of the world, spent a winter in the Arctic regions, ascended great mountains in all the continents, and lived and traveled among savage tribes of people in Asia and South America, and lived for several months among the aboriginals of Australia. He had a large collection of curiosities which he had gathered in his journeys, and used to say playfully that when he got tired of traveling he intended to Open a museum and hang himself up in a showcase as one of the objects of attraction and surprise. 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.