Splendid Savage : The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham by Steve Kemper

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9780393353907

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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393353907
ISBN-13
9780393353907
eBay Product ID (ePID)
224477554

Product Key Features

Book Title
Splendid Savage : the Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Outdoor Skills, Adventurers & Explorers, Essays & Travelogues
Genre
Travel, Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Steve Kemper
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
12.6 Oz
Item Length
0.8 in
Item Width
0.6 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
There's almost too much for one book, let alone one life. . . . Mr. Kemper's narrative is rich, detailed, and pitch-perfect, with the witty and wonderful skipping off every page., Admirably resurrects the larger-than-life figure of Frederick Russell Burnham (1861-1947) in an account chockfull of adventures that feel ripped from dime-store novels., A rollicking, gripping portrait of Frederick Russell Burnham (1861-1947), a highly skilled military scout, outdoorsman, marksman, and prospector, whose legendary survival skills helped inspire the creation of the Boy Scouts., A splendid book about an amazing life. If this work were not history, it might seem an overly ambitious adventure novel whose hero deserved a multi-volume series., Burnham lived a life of astonishing adventure. . . . In Kemper's sure and enthusiastic hands, Burnham storms through the pages of this rousing volume, outwitting determined foes and collecting mining and ranching interests on two continents that never seemed to pay off as expected. . . . Thrilling adventures presented with the flair they deserve., There's almost too much for one book, let alone one life...Mr. Kemper's narrative is rich, detailed, and pitch-perfect, with the witty and wonderful skipping off every page., Burnham lived a life of astonishing adventure...In Kemper's sure and enthusiastic hands, Burnham storms through the pages of this rousing volume, outwitting determined foes and collecting mining and ranching interests on two continents that never seemed to pay off as expected...Thrilling adventures presented with the flair they deserve., A brilliant biography of a Westering man whose life would have been remembered by all who have studied and written about the West, except for the fact that the arc of his life, which reads like a Jack London adventure, stretched well beyond the borders of the American West in time and scope., [A] life was so full of derring-do and fearless exploits that, lacking historical record, one would assume him to be myth.
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
910.4/1092 B
Synopsis
"Rich, detailed, and pitch-perfect, with the witty and wonderful skipping off every page." --Maxwell Carter, Wall Street Journal, Frederick Russell Burnham's (1861-1947) amazing story resembles a newsreel fused with a Saturday matinee thriller. One of the few people who could turn his garrulous friend Theodore Roosevelt into a listener, Burnham was once world-famous as "the American scout." His expertise in woodcraft, learned from frontiersmen and Indians, helped inspire another friend, Robert Baden-Powell, to found the Boy Scouts. His adventures encompassed Apache wars and range feuds, booms and busts in mining camps around the globe, explorations in remote regions of Africa, and death-defying military feats that brought him renown and high honors. His skills led to his unusual appointment, as an American, to be Chief of Scouts for the British during the Boer War, where his daring exploits earned him the Distinguished Service Order from King Edward VII. After a lifetime pursuing golden prospects from the deserts of Mexico and Africa to the tundra of the Klondike, Burnham found wealth, in his sixties, near his childhood home in southern California. Other men of his era had a few such adventures, but Burnham had them all. His friend H. Rider Haggard, author of many best-selling exotic tales, remarked, "In real life he is more interesting than any of my heroes of romance." Among other well-known individuals who figure in Burnham's story are Cecil Rhodes and William Howard Taft, as well as some of the wealthiest men of the day, including John Hays Hammond, E. H. Harriman, Henry Payne Whitney, and the Guggenheim brothers. Failure and tragedy streaked his life as well, but he was endlessly willing to set off into the unknown, where the future felt up for grabs and values worth dying for were at stake. Steve Kemper brings a quintessential American story to vivid life in this gripping biography.

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