Seasons with the Sea-horses; Or, Sporting Adventures in the Northern Seas
"One of the keenest sportsmen and raciest narrators, indeed a mighty hunter." - Crosthwaite's Register, 1860
"The first to make a shooting-trip to the Polar regions." -Blackwood's, 1894
"No one can deny the skill of the author as a lively and entertaining narrator, one of the most readable books of travels." - Harper's, 1861
"Briskly written and racy...entertaining, thoughtful, and spirit-stirring." - Littell's, 1861
Man is a pursuing and destroying animal. In all ages of the world he has distinguished himself by the amount of game that he has run down or rode down, that he has hunted with javelins, trapping pits, arrows, muskets, or otherwise secured. Wherever there is anything to catch there is pretty nearly always a man to catch it; and if there be not one close at hand, there very soon will be. There is a rapture in adventure, a delight in danger, a pleasure in acquisition, a satisfaction in hunting, giving men a proud consciousness of their superior dignity.
Any ordinary sporting ardour might be chilled by the low temperature, and damped by the dense and depressing fogs of the Arctic, but not that of Sir James Lamont, one of Great Britain's keenest sportsmen and raciest narrators of the 19th Century, who had travelled the globe as a big game hunter and explorer.
As detailed by Lamont in his racy and entertaining 1861 book "Seasons with the Sea-horses," 46 walruses ("sea-horses"), 88 seals, 8 polar bears, 1 white whale, and 61 rein deer fell prey to his hunting party in the ice-bound haunts of the south coast of Spitzbergen Island in 1859.
Of the excitement of a walrus hunt Lamont says—
"In all my sporting experience, I never saw anything to equal the wild excitement of these hunts. Five pairs of oars pulled with the utmost strength, make the boat seem to fly through the water, while perhaps, a hundred walruses roaring, bellowing, blowing, snorting, and splashing, make an acre of the sea all in a foam before and around her."
Of the perils of walrus hunting, Lamont writes—
"The walrus, a large old bull, charged the boat, and the walrus getting inside of it, threw himself on the gunwale of the boat and overset it in an instant; while the men were floundering in the water amongst their oars and tackle, the infuriated animal rushed in amongst them, and selecting the unlucky harpooner, who I fancy had fallen next him...."
Leaving his narrative here, it must have indeed been horrifying to have been one of the capsized crew plunged into the icy domain of what Lamont describes as a terrifying monster whose "terrific mustache, together with his long white tusks, and fierce-looking, blood-shot eyes, gives altogether a most unearthly and demoniacal appearance as he rears his head above the waves."
Polar bear hunting, as Lamont found, was equally dangerous, as seen in an encounter with an "enormous male bear, who measured upwards of eight feet in length"—
"When the bear came close opposite to the dead seals, he peeped cautiously up over the head of the ice... I instantly sprang out on the ice and ran towards the bear, while the boat started to meet him in case he should take to the water; while I was running the bear got to his feet, and advanced a few steps to meet me, growling most horribly and showing his teeth..."
Besides his vivid account of the sports of the Arctic, his descriptions of scenery, and record of serious or amusing incidents, Lamont gives us occasional notices of men and manners, or facts of natural history that came under his observation.
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"The first to make a shooting-trip to the Polar regions." -Blackwood's, 1894
"No one can deny the skill of the author as a lively and entertaining narrator, one of the most readable books of travels." - Harper's, 1861
"Briskly written and racy...entertaining, thoughtful, and spirit-stirring." - Littell's, 1861
Man is a pursuing and destroying animal. In all ages of the world he has distinguished himself by the amount of game that he has run down or rode down, that he has hunted with javelins, trapping pits, arrows, muskets, or otherwise secured. Wherever there is anything to catch there is pretty nearly always a man to catch it; and if there be not one close at hand, there very soon will be. There is a rapture in adventure, a delight in danger, a pleasure in acquisition, a satisfaction in hunting, giving men a proud consciousness of their superior dignity.
Any ordinary sporting ardour might be chilled by the low temperature, and damped by the dense and depressing fogs of the Arctic, but not that of Sir James Lamont, one of Great Britain's keenest sportsmen and raciest narrators of the 19th Century, who had travelled the globe as a big game hunter and explorer.
As detailed by Lamont in his racy and entertaining 1861 book "Seasons with the Sea-horses," 46 walruses ("sea-horses"), 88 seals, 8 polar bears, 1 white whale, and 61 rein deer fell prey to his hunting party in the ice-bound haunts of the south coast of Spitzbergen Island in 1859.
Of the excitement of a walrus hunt Lamont says—
"In all my sporting experience, I never saw anything to equal the wild excitement of these hunts. Five pairs of oars pulled with the utmost strength, make the boat seem to fly through the water, while perhaps, a hundred walruses roaring, bellowing, blowing, snorting, and splashing, make an acre of the sea all in a foam before and around her."
Of the perils of walrus hunting, Lamont writes—
"The walrus, a large old bull, charged the boat, and the walrus getting inside of it, threw himself on the gunwale of the boat and overset it in an instant; while the men were floundering in the water amongst their oars and tackle, the infuriated animal rushed in amongst them, and selecting the unlucky harpooner, who I fancy had fallen next him...."
Leaving his narrative here, it must have indeed been horrifying to have been one of the capsized crew plunged into the icy domain of what Lamont describes as a terrifying monster whose "terrific mustache, together with his long white tusks, and fierce-looking, blood-shot eyes, gives altogether a most unearthly and demoniacal appearance as he rears his head above the waves."
Polar bear hunting, as Lamont found, was equally dangerous, as seen in an encounter with an "enormous male bear, who measured upwards of eight feet in length"—
"When the bear came close opposite to the dead seals, he peeped cautiously up over the head of the ice... I instantly sprang out on the ice and ran towards the bear, while the boat started to meet him in case he should take to the water; while I was running the bear got to his feet, and advanced a few steps to meet me, growling most horribly and showing his teeth..."
Besides his vivid account of the sports of the Arctic, his descriptions of scenery, and record of serious or amusing incidents, Lamont gives us occasional notices of men and manners, or facts of natural history that came under his observation.
Seasons with the Sea-horses; Or, Sporting Adventures in the Northern Seas
"One of the keenest sportsmen and raciest narrators, indeed a mighty hunter." - Crosthwaite's Register, 1860
"The first to make a shooting-trip to the Polar regions." -Blackwood's, 1894
"No one can deny the skill of the author as a lively and entertaining narrator, one of the most readable books of travels." - Harper's, 1861
"Briskly written and racy...entertaining, thoughtful, and spirit-stirring." - Littell's, 1861
Man is a pursuing and destroying animal. In all ages of the world he has distinguished himself by the amount of game that he has run down or rode down, that he has hunted with javelins, trapping pits, arrows, muskets, or otherwise secured. Wherever there is anything to catch there is pretty nearly always a man to catch it; and if there be not one close at hand, there very soon will be. There is a rapture in adventure, a delight in danger, a pleasure in acquisition, a satisfaction in hunting, giving men a proud consciousness of their superior dignity.
Any ordinary sporting ardour might be chilled by the low temperature, and damped by the dense and depressing fogs of the Arctic, but not that of Sir James Lamont, one of Great Britain's keenest sportsmen and raciest narrators of the 19th Century, who had travelled the globe as a big game hunter and explorer.
As detailed by Lamont in his racy and entertaining 1861 book "Seasons with the Sea-horses," 46 walruses ("sea-horses"), 88 seals, 8 polar bears, 1 white whale, and 61 rein deer fell prey to his hunting party in the ice-bound haunts of the south coast of Spitzbergen Island in 1859.
Of the excitement of a walrus hunt Lamont says—
"In all my sporting experience, I never saw anything to equal the wild excitement of these hunts. Five pairs of oars pulled with the utmost strength, make the boat seem to fly through the water, while perhaps, a hundred walruses roaring, bellowing, blowing, snorting, and splashing, make an acre of the sea all in a foam before and around her."
Of the perils of walrus hunting, Lamont writes—
"The walrus, a large old bull, charged the boat, and the walrus getting inside of it, threw himself on the gunwale of the boat and overset it in an instant; while the men were floundering in the water amongst their oars and tackle, the infuriated animal rushed in amongst them, and selecting the unlucky harpooner, who I fancy had fallen next him...."
Leaving his narrative here, it must have indeed been horrifying to have been one of the capsized crew plunged into the icy domain of what Lamont describes as a terrifying monster whose "terrific mustache, together with his long white tusks, and fierce-looking, blood-shot eyes, gives altogether a most unearthly and demoniacal appearance as he rears his head above the waves."
Polar bear hunting, as Lamont found, was equally dangerous, as seen in an encounter with an "enormous male bear, who measured upwards of eight feet in length"—
"When the bear came close opposite to the dead seals, he peeped cautiously up over the head of the ice... I instantly sprang out on the ice and ran towards the bear, while the boat started to meet him in case he should take to the water; while I was running the bear got to his feet, and advanced a few steps to meet me, growling most horribly and showing his teeth..."
Besides his vivid account of the sports of the Arctic, his descriptions of scenery, and record of serious or amusing incidents, Lamont gives us occasional notices of men and manners, or facts of natural history that came under his observation.
"The first to make a shooting-trip to the Polar regions." -Blackwood's, 1894
"No one can deny the skill of the author as a lively and entertaining narrator, one of the most readable books of travels." - Harper's, 1861
"Briskly written and racy...entertaining, thoughtful, and spirit-stirring." - Littell's, 1861
Man is a pursuing and destroying animal. In all ages of the world he has distinguished himself by the amount of game that he has run down or rode down, that he has hunted with javelins, trapping pits, arrows, muskets, or otherwise secured. Wherever there is anything to catch there is pretty nearly always a man to catch it; and if there be not one close at hand, there very soon will be. There is a rapture in adventure, a delight in danger, a pleasure in acquisition, a satisfaction in hunting, giving men a proud consciousness of their superior dignity.
Any ordinary sporting ardour might be chilled by the low temperature, and damped by the dense and depressing fogs of the Arctic, but not that of Sir James Lamont, one of Great Britain's keenest sportsmen and raciest narrators of the 19th Century, who had travelled the globe as a big game hunter and explorer.
As detailed by Lamont in his racy and entertaining 1861 book "Seasons with the Sea-horses," 46 walruses ("sea-horses"), 88 seals, 8 polar bears, 1 white whale, and 61 rein deer fell prey to his hunting party in the ice-bound haunts of the south coast of Spitzbergen Island in 1859.
Of the excitement of a walrus hunt Lamont says—
"In all my sporting experience, I never saw anything to equal the wild excitement of these hunts. Five pairs of oars pulled with the utmost strength, make the boat seem to fly through the water, while perhaps, a hundred walruses roaring, bellowing, blowing, snorting, and splashing, make an acre of the sea all in a foam before and around her."
Of the perils of walrus hunting, Lamont writes—
"The walrus, a large old bull, charged the boat, and the walrus getting inside of it, threw himself on the gunwale of the boat and overset it in an instant; while the men were floundering in the water amongst their oars and tackle, the infuriated animal rushed in amongst them, and selecting the unlucky harpooner, who I fancy had fallen next him...."
Leaving his narrative here, it must have indeed been horrifying to have been one of the capsized crew plunged into the icy domain of what Lamont describes as a terrifying monster whose "terrific mustache, together with his long white tusks, and fierce-looking, blood-shot eyes, gives altogether a most unearthly and demoniacal appearance as he rears his head above the waves."
Polar bear hunting, as Lamont found, was equally dangerous, as seen in an encounter with an "enormous male bear, who measured upwards of eight feet in length"—
"When the bear came close opposite to the dead seals, he peeped cautiously up over the head of the ice... I instantly sprang out on the ice and ran towards the bear, while the boat started to meet him in case he should take to the water; while I was running the bear got to his feet, and advanced a few steps to meet me, growling most horribly and showing his teeth..."
Besides his vivid account of the sports of the Arctic, his descriptions of scenery, and record of serious or amusing incidents, Lamont gives us occasional notices of men and manners, or facts of natural history that came under his observation.
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| Publisher: | Far West Travel Adventure |
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