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In the Wilderness by Charles Dudley Warner. Intellectual life, National history, a book of knowledge, the following is the beginning So many conflicting accounts have appeared about my casual encounter with an Adirondack bear last summer that in justice to the public, to myself, and to the bear, it is necessary to make a plain statement of the facts. Besides, it is so seldom I have occasion to kill a bear, that the celebration of the exploit may be excused.The encounter was unpremeditated on both sides. I was not hunting for a bear, and I have no reason to suppose that a bear was looking for me. The fact is, that we were both out blackberrying, and met by chance, the usual way. There is among the Adirondack visitors always a great deal of conversation about bears,—a general expression of the wish to see one in the woods, and much speculation as to how a person would act if he or she chanced to meet one. But bears are scarce and timid, and appear only to a favored few

Charles Dudley Warner is a collection of nature/wilderness tales by Charles Dudley Warner that describes the author's adventures in the American wilderness and includes the following titles: How I killed a bear -- Lost in the woods -- A fight with a trout -- A-hunting of the deer -- A character study (Old Phelps) -- Camping out -- A wilderness romance -- What some people call pleasure.

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Charles Dudley Warner is a collection of nature/wilderness tales by Charles Dudley Warner that describes the author's adventures in the American wilderness and includes the following titles: How I killed a bear -- Lost in the woods -- A fight with a trout -- A-hunting of the deer -- A character study (Old Phelps) -- Camping out -- A wilderness romance -- What some people call pleasure.

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Robert Hichens (1864 – 1950) was an English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic and collaborated on successful plays. He is best remembered as a satirist of the "Naughty Nineties". Hichens' first big success was An Imaginative Man (1895); set in the city of Cairo, Egypt, a place which fascinated Hichens, it is a study of insanity, in which the hero has a number of sexual adventures and then smashes his head against the Great Sphinx.