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Bring 'em Back Alive: The Best of Frank Buck - Softcover

Buck, Frank

 
9780896725829: Bring 'em Back Alive: The Best of Frank Buck
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0896725820 ISBN 13: 9780896725829
Verlag: Texas Tech Press,U.S., 2006

Inhaltsangabe

?Picture a cross between Clark Gable and that excitable Australian fellow who frolics with alligators on cable TV, and you get something of a picture of Frank Buck.” ?San Antonio Express-News. ?Fans remember [Buck] as a devoted conservationist?Buck fretted often about the survival of rare species?and intrepid adventurer, whose deeds in Sumatra, Borneo, India and the Philippines wowed folks at home.” ?Newsday. ?Good, old-fashioned, movie-serial-type adventures in wild, exotic settings.” ?Dallas Morning News. ?All in all, this is an extremely entertaining book, illustrating a different time and written in a way that brings that time to life.” ?Choice. ?That this hardy Texan’s celebrity was earned is made evident in a new version of Bring ?Em Back Alive, . . . a compilation of exciting and often chilling first-person adventures.” ?East Texas Historical Association Journal. Frank Buck spent his life capturing alive every kind of animal, from birds to snakes to elephants. The intrepid Texas animal collector and jungle adventurer enthralled generations of readers and moviegoers with the stories of danger and daring collected here.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A Frank Buck fan from boyhood, Steven Lehrer is associate professor of radiation oncology at Mount Sanai School of Medicine.

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Verlag
Texas Tech Press,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0896725820
ISBN 13 
9780896725829
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
248
Herausgeber
Lehrer Steven
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