Books published by publisher APPLETON

"In the Congo your worst fears are never realized. Something that you didn't fear happens instead." --Mary Hastings BradleyMary Hastings Bradley records the events of a 1921 safari with her husband, Herbert Bradley, five-year-old daughter, and her friend, the renowned sculptor and taxidermist Carl Akeley. Akeley was searching for gorilla specimens for the African Hall he was in the process of redesigning for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Well into the twentieth century, this largest of primates was more a figure of myth than of natural history. The safari details successful hunting for gorillas, lions, and elephants, as well as providing details of the local country and its inhabitants.Contents: I. Off To Africa II. The West Coast Trip III. The Tourist Trail IV. In The Belgian Congo V. On Safari VI. The Summit Of Africa VII. The Gorilla Trail VIII. The Bio Gorilla Of Kaeisimbi IX. A Gorilla Band X. The Pygmies Come To Camp XI. A Night In A CraterXII. The Three-stone Kitchen XIII. The Lion That Came To Life XIV. Lion Hunting At Night XV. Elephants And Buffalo XVI. Santa In The Jungle XVII. Across Uganda XVIII. The Tomb Of King Mutesa XIX. Good-by To Africa XX. Lists And Equipment, Etc. This book published in 1922 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.

Abbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, has died at the beginning of A White Bird Flying, leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura the secret of her dream of finer things. Grandma Deal's literary aspirations had been thwarted by the hard circumstances of her life, but Laura vows that nothing, no one, will deter her from a successful writing career. Childhood passes, and the more she repeats her vow the more life intervenes.