African Adventure Stories (1914)

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J. (John) Alden Loring (1871 – 1947) used to be a mammologist and field naturalist who served with the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture, the Bronx Zoological Park, the Smithsonian Institution and a large number of expeditions collecting specimens in North The usa, Europe and Africa. A voluminous and careful traveling collector, Loring used to be recognized early in his career for 900 specimens collected, prepared and sent to the USA National Museum over a three-month period all over an 1898 expedition through Scandinavia and northwestern Europe.

Loring’s work and professional relationships spanned several continents focusing on collecting and documenting species of mammals. He served on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition (1909–1910) as the Smithsonian specialist designated to preserve small mammals collected all over the year-long expedition.

As Theodore Roosevelt states:
“THE writer of this little volume, Mr. J. Alden Loring, is likely one of the three field naturalists who accompanied me all over the eleven months that I spent in Africa, at the head of a scientific expedition sent out by the Smithsonian Institution. In the following pages Mr. Loring has chronicled a few of the experiences that befell the expedition and its members, even as one of the vital chapters are devoted to the experiences of trustworthy travellers and big-game hunters whom we met. What he describes as fact may unhesitatingly be accepted as such; and in the preface he clearly differentiates between the experiences in which he records fact, and those in which he tells stories merely founded on fact.”

I. A NARROW ESCAPE FROM AFRICAN BLACKS
II. LIONS
III FIGHTING AN AFRICAN GRASS-FIRE
IV MY FIRST LION
V THE WATS OF THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT
VI CHASED BY AN OSTRICH
VII MAULED BY AN ELEPHANT
VIII “JACKING” ANIMALS
IX A FATAL ENCOUNTER WITH LIONS
X CROCODILES
XI A BATTLE WITH A TORRENT
XII HIPPOS
XIII INTERESTING AFRICAN REPTILES
XIV A FIGHT WITH HIPPOS
XV WILD ANIMALS THAT I HAVE “et”
XVI A RACE WITH A RHINO
XVII IMPRISONED BY A COBRA
XVIII TREED BY AN ELEPHANT
XIX SNOW-BLIND ON MOUNT KENIA
XX CAPTURED BY AFRICAN SAVAGES
XXI CORNERED BY BABOONS
XXII A FIGHT WITH FIVE LIONS

This book originally published by C. Scribner’s Sons in 1914 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.
J. (John) Alden Loring (1871 – 1947) used to be a mammologist and field naturalist who served with the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture, the Bronx Zoological Park, the Smithsonian Institution and a large number of expeditions collecting specimens in North The usa, Europe and Africa. A voluminous and careful traveling collector, Loring used to be recognized early in his career for 900 specimens collected, prepared and sent to the USA National Museum over a three-month period all over an 1898 expedition through Scandinavia and northwestern Europe.

Loring’s work and professional relationships spanned several continents focusing on collecting and documenting species of mammals. He served on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition (1909–1910) as the Smithsonian specialist designated to preserve small mammals collected all over the year-long expedition.

As Theodore Roosevelt states:
“THE writer of this little volume, Mr. J. Alden Loring, is likely one of the three field naturalists who accompanied me all over the eleven months that I spent in Africa, at the head of a scientific expedition sent out by the Smithsonian Institution. In the following pages Mr. Loring has chronicled a few of the experiences that befell the expedition and its members, even as one of the vital chapters are devoted to the experiences of trustworthy travellers and big-game hunters whom we met. What he describes as fact may unhesitatingly be accepted as such; and in the preface he clearly differentiates between the experiences in which he records fact, and those in which he tells stories merely founded on fact.”

I. A NARROW ESCAPE FROM AFRICAN BLACKS
II. LIONS
III FIGHTING AN AFRICAN GRASS-FIRE
IV MY FIRST LION
V THE WATS OF THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT
VI CHASED BY AN OSTRICH
VII MAULED BY AN ELEPHANT
VIII “JACKING” ANIMALS
IX A FATAL ENCOUNTER WITH LIONS
X CROCODILES
XI A BATTLE WITH A TORRENT
XII HIPPOS
XIII INTERESTING AFRICAN REPTILES
XIV A FIGHT WITH HIPPOS
XV WILD ANIMALS THAT I HAVE “et”
XVI A RACE WITH A RHINO
XVII IMPRISONED BY A COBRA
XVIII TREED BY AN ELEPHANT
XIX SNOW-BLIND ON MOUNT KENIA
XX CAPTURED BY AFRICAN SAVAGES
XXI CORNERED BY BABOONS
XXII A FIGHT WITH FIVE LIONS

This book originally published by C. Scribner’s Sons in 1914 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.