Boyd Alexander's Last Journey: With a Memoir (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Alexander, Herbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332106307 ISBN 13: 9781332106301

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Boyd Alexander's Last Journey: With a Memoir

Besides, not having any practical knowledge of any one of my brother's callings, either as explorer, soldier, or ornithologist, it were a hopeless task for me to try to do him justice in respect of these. But for many years of our early life we grew up together, when, if only memory will serve, so many of the qualities can be found in the child that went to the making of the man. And then again, for more than a year after his great journey across Africa, when he returned to find himself famous, I was engaged in helping him in the writing of his book and travelling with him to the various towns where he lectured, which meant that we were together throughout that time all day long and under conditions exceptionally favourable for the study of character and capacity. But for this opportunity it would have been indeed difficult to give more than a Shadowy sketch; for from the very nature of his calling the explorer's life, as it is expressed by contact with his fellow-men, must be so little known. The writer, painter, scholar, even the soldier, is sur rounded by his family and his circle of friends, who have had talk with him and have known him intimately for many years and Shared with him the hours of work and play. But the true explorer, the pioneer, must live so much of his life alone, and, even if at times he has com panions, the conditions of work are such as are likely to keep them far apart throughout the day. So the best years of youth go by, when friendships are made and love is won, and though he returns to his own country from time to time, it is only too often to find that some of those that were dear to him are dead.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1332106307
• ISBN 13: 9781332106301
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 358