Recollections of the Crimean Campaign and the Expedition to Kinburn in 1855
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Recollections of the Crimean Campaign and the Expedition to Kinburn in 1855: Including Also Sporting and Dramatic Incidents, in Connection With Garrison Life in the Canadian Lower Provinces I Feel an apology is necessary in giving to the Public a book which might seem to be only an autobiography of a person of no importance, having no excuse for being published except that it might perhaps be interesting to the author´s own immediate relatives or friends. But I hope it can lay claim to being something more than that. Its endeavor has been to bring before the reader scenes of half a century ago. Of the fiercely fought contest before Sebastopol that terminated the Crimean War, of which, of all Canadians then holding the Queen´s Commission who took part, the writer is to-day, if not quite, at least almost the last survivor. In addition, it aims to give a glimpse of social life in the garrison towns of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the early "fifties," of theatricals, and the elder Sothern´s dramatic ventures in Halifax, as well as descriptions of hunts for big and small game, and fish and fishing in the wilds of these Provinces. At the outset, when I decided to put the recollections of those days in print, I struggled earnestly to write them in the third person, and keep the pronoun "I" in the background. It proved a huge mistake, and was altogether more egotistical even than as now presented; but there being no other form I had perforce to adopt it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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