Baree: Son of Kazan
Book Description
Since the publication of my two animal books, Kazan and The Grizzly King, I have received so many hundreds of letters from friends of wild animal life, all of which were more or less of an enquiring nature, that I have been encouraged to incorporate in this preface of the third of my series Baree, Son of Kazan something more of my desire and hope in writing of wild life, and something of the found...
MoreSince the publication of my two animal books, Kazan and The Grizzly King, I have received so many hundreds of letters from friends of wild animal life, all of which were more or less of an enquiring nature, that I have been encouraged to incorporate in this preface of the third of my series Baree, Son of Kazan something more of my desire and hope in writing of wild life, and something of the foundation of fact whereupon this and its companion books have been written. I have always disliked the preaching of sermons in the pages of romance. It is like placing a halter about an unsuspecting readers neck and dragging him into paths for which he may have no liking. But if fact and truth produce in the readers mind a message for himself, then a work has been done. That is what I hope for in my nature books. The American people are not and never have been levers of wild life. As a nation we have gone after Nature with a gun.
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