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Retrospect
Author: Abel Chapman

RETROSPECT 1851-1928 RETROSPECT REMINISCENCES AND IMPRESSIONS OF A HUNTER-NATURALIST IN THREE CONTINENTS 1851-1928 ABEL CHAPMAN ILLUMRATIQNb BY JOShPJI CRAW fAU, V II. RIDDhLL 20 IN COLOUR AND ROUGH SKElLllL BY lllh AU1JJOR The gieatest thing a uman soul ever does in this world is to see something d to tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundieds o... more »f peor-can talk for one who can think but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one.-RUSKIN. The seeing eye reveals but does not invent. A. c. GURNET AND JACKSON LONDON 33 PATERNOSTER ROW EDINBURGH TWEEDDALE COURT 1928 INSCRIBED WITH DEEP HUMILITY AND GRATITUDE TO THAT DIVINE PROVIDENCE WHICH HAS GRANTED, GUARDED, AND HAPPILY GUIDED A LIFE P. E OND THE ALLOTTED SPAN A long Retrospect with its alternations of storm - cloud and sunshine of failure and success , of pleasure and peril ever reveals the trace of conbistent GUIDANCE towards a potential fulfilment. PREFACE RETROSPECT forms the tenth work completed by the Author during a period of forty years giving an average of four years preparation to each. The respective periods of study have been, however, concurrent and cumulative throughout that of the present volume synchronising with the full three-quarters of a ccnturyspecified in the title, and including the experiences of some sixty overseas expeditions afar whereer the billows roll, From the worlds girdle to the frozen Pole. Thus, while the supply of raw material has always been adequate, and the bricks have never lacked straw, the methods of manufacture to wit, my interpretations of Wild Nature stand for judgment both now and in the days to come. There is always a risk of Reminiscences degenerating from their proper function that of conserving garnered harvests into merely senile garrulity To husband out Lifes taper to the close, And keep its flame from wasting by repose. GOLDSMITH. That danger has been foreseen and, I trust, avoided since there are chapters in the present work they shall not be specified which justify the issue of the whole while some of those in lighter vein at least record phases of thought and of activities which have completely passed away and are already, in great part, relegated to oblivion For each age is a dream that is dying, or one that is coming to birth. vh a 3 viii PREFACE Scarcely, nevertheless, will I claim for Retrospect equal standard, as regards personal field-exploration, with my two previous post-war works though the animal-studies of my late cousin, Joseph Crawhall some of whose drawings recently realised 1000, and far more, by auction in London, and Mr W. H. Riddells series of coloured plates, will compensate for any deficiency ABEL CHAPMAN. HOUXIY, WARK, NORTHUMBERLAND, April 12, 1928. Who thinks a perfect piece to see, Thinks what neer was, nor is, nor eer shall be. In every work regard the writers end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause in spite of trivial faults is due. As men of learning, sometimes men of wit, Tavoid great errors, must the less commit. A perfect judge will read each work of wit In the same spirit that its author writ Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find, Where Nature rules and rapture warms the mind. POPE. LENVOI ONCE upon a time twas a glorious Spring morning in the long, long ago the Author was a-fishing North Tyne. His companion was an old gamekeeper, Robert Ternent, who had served his father and himself during a period of forty years. 1 Now Ternent was a born enthusiast, one of these ebullient spirits whose exuberant optimism call it not egotism ever bubbled over to refresh a thirsty earth. The river that happy morning ran brimming over, foam-flecked and moss-brown from the moors in short, in finest ply also the wind blew soft and warm from the west. Possibly these favouring facts conjointly with the Genius of the Glad Season each added its quotum to the resilience aforesaid...

ISBN-13: 9781406749458
ISBN-10: 1406749451
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 412
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Publisher: Ellott Press
Book Type: Paperback
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