Sport and Adventures among the North American Indians

London, R. H. Porter, 1890. In-8 (22x14cm), 368pp., demi basane, charnières fragiles, manque au dos, coiffes absentes, coins émoussés, 2 feuillets volants, brunissures, coutures lâches.

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A vivid sporting and adventure narrative recounting the author's experiences hunting and travelling among Indigenous peoples of North America. Messiter writes with the typical enthusiasm of the Victorian gentleman-adventurer, providing colourful accounts of big game hunting, frontier life and encounters with Native communities, making this an appealing document of both sporting literature and late nineteenth century attitudes toward wilderness and Indigenous peoples. Récit d'aventures et de chasse d'un gentleman-voyageur victorien parmi les communautés autochtones d'Amérique du Nord. Mêlant littérature sportive et observations ethnographiques, l'ouvrage reflète le regard fasciné mais condescendant de l'époque coloniale sur les peuples autochtones et la nature sauvage. Peu courant sur le marché. Ch-3E