The North American Review
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217099998
Paperback|9780217099998
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. IV. ? The Adventures of Daniel Boone. By the Author of Uncle Philip's Conversations. New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1844. We are sorry to see this little volume. It is taken almost entirely from Mr. Flint's biography of Boone, and contains the same errors, fables, and absurdities. For instance, the hero is said to have been born in 1746, whereas, he was born in 1732; he is said to have died in 1818, although his death really took place in 1820; and at the time of his decease he was, we are told, in his eighty-fourth year, when in reality he was eighty-eight. Nay, the writer of this work has even failed to perceive, that, if born in 1746, he would have been in his seventy-second or seventy-third year if he had died in 1818, and not in his eighty-fourth; he has copied even Mr. Flint's false arithmetic. We find, also, Mr. Flint's fabulous account of Boone's recovery of his daughter, when taken by the Indians in 1776, ? the falsity of which Mr. Butler exposed years ago; and also the story derived, professedly, from Audubon, which we believe to be equally untrue. Indeed, this volume, throughout, follows Mr. Flint with exquisite fidelity, and, we regret to say, does it, too, without acknowledgment. It is not our purpose, however, to dwell on the work before us, or on any of the other lives or sketches of the hero of this book. We wish, if we can, to shake ourselves free from books, and cities, and the present time, and go with our readers into the grim and green wilderness, and look at the pioneers as they press so boldly, yet cautiously, forward, and build their cabins in the shade of the noble forests which cover the, hunting-grounds of the Cherokee and the Shawanese. The spring of 1769 rose calmly over those broad woodlands. Not a cabin, not a wigwam, lay hidden in t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217099998 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217099998 |
| Weight | 1.32 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.91 In |
| List Price | $28.66 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 410 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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