On Jungle Trailsby Frank Buck | |
| Category: |
"Travel" |
|---|---|
| Pages: | 280 |
| Year of Publication: | 1936 |
| Date Added: | 03/24/2004 |
| Date Read: | 05/08/2004 |
| Notes: | Buck was a businessman, who by the 1920s developed a thriving trade bringing animals back from Asia and selling them to the zoos of the United States and Europe. With the onset of the Great Depression, Buck, like many others, went bankrupt, but this opened up a new and far more important part of his career. At the time, accounts of white explorers and adventurers in the far reaches of colonized lands were a staple of popular culture. Buck turned his real experience of capturing wild animals into a series of articles for magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. This led to a contract for a book with Simon and Schuster, entitled Bring 'em Back Alive, that became a runaway best seller. Bring 'em Back Alive remained steadily in print for more than two decades, and the phrase that would always henceforth be associated with Buck's name. |
| My Rating: | 5 |
Reviewed by Roger on 2004-05-19 16:17:28
