| Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Pirates of the Prairies Adventures in the American Desert. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Gustave Aimard, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Pirates of the Prairies Adventures in the American Desert in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Pirates of the Prairies Adventures in the American Desert:Look inside the book: The stags and deer bounding timidly along, with ear erect and eye on the watch, the bighorn leaping from rock to rock, and then resting motionless on the verge of a precipice, the heavy and stupid buffaloes with their sad eyes, the wild horses, whose numerous manadas make the earth re-echo in their purposeless chase, the alligator, with its body in the mud, and sleeping in the sun, the hideous iguana carelessly climbing up a tree, the puma, that maneless lion, the panther and jaguar cunningly watch their prey as it passes, the brown bear, that gluttonous honey-hunter, the grizzly, the most formidable denizen of these countries, the cotejo, with its venomous bite, the chameleon, whose skin reflects every hue, the green lizard, and the basilisk crawling silent and sinister beneath the leaves, the monstrous boa, the coral snake, so small and yet so terrible, the cascabel, the macaurel, and the great striped serpent. ...When the hole is deep enough, the sides are lined with buffalo hides, for fear of damp, and the articles are laid in it: the soil is then put in again, and the grass laid over it, which is watered to make it grow, and the rest of the earth is carried to the river, into which every particle is thrown, in order to hide any trace of the cache, which is so closely concealed, that a man must have an extraordinary skilful eye to discover one, and he often only finds old caches which have been ransacked and have nothing left in them. About Gustave Aimard, the Author: After one more stay in America (where, according to himself, he was adopted into a Comanche tribe), Aimard returned to Paris in 1847--the same year his half-sister, Duchess de Choiseul-Pralin, was brutally murdered by her noble husband. ...During his stay in Rio de Janeiro he had contact with Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil as is apparent from Aimard's January, 11, 1880 letter to Pedro II which letter he signed with Gustave Aimard. |
