Tales from nature's wonderlands / by William T. Hornaday.

  • William Temple Hornaday
Date:
1924
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Tales from nature's wonderlands / by William T. Hornaday. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This world contains a great number of wonderful places; but alasl the millions can visit them only in imagination. In the past, long before history writing began, hosts of mar- vellous animals lived and died, and many wonderful things occurred. A few of the great and tragic events of the past we now know, from evidences so clear and so convincing that no reasonable person can dispute them. By piecing together broken bits of evidence, we can picture some of them with satisfactory accuracy. For example, the great Los Angeles wild-animal tragedy is just as well revealed by its records as are the main details of the Johnstown flood. To the seeing eye and the thoughtful mind, truth is stranger than fiction. Really, I am astonished to find the extent to which in books for young people some of the greatest wonders of Nature have been overlooked, in behalf of animal-hero plots. Right gladly do we enter upon the diversion of placing some of the most wonderful things that we know before our boys and girls, and also older people who love the works of Nature. The desirability of this particular task was sug- gested to me by my efforts to relate to my three grandchildren, before our library fire, certain wonderful tales from the Book of Nature that I particularly wished they should not miss. At the end of a day of toil, happy is he who can sit down by his good, cheerful light, and in sixty seconds be carried
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