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Excerpt from Sir Victor Brooke, Sportsman and Naturalist: A Memoir of His Life and Extracts From His Letters and Journals
IN undertaking to write a Memoir of the late Sir Victor Brooke, coupled with extracts from his letters and diaries relating to travel and sporting adventures, I have not been actuated by the feeling that I possess any special qualification for the task, except that of an intimate friendship extending over twenty years.
With the slight literary advantages which I possess, that friendship, close as it had been, would not have been sufficient in itself to have induced me to attempt the onerous work, had not his widow urged me to do so, and expressed, with other relations, her Opinion that my knowledge of his life and character, and the personal affection I bore him, would perhaps enable me to do more justice to his memory than any one else could have done, even though armed with better literary credentials. However that may be, I trust those friends and such of the public as read these pages will find much to interest them; and when interest is found wanting, the fault will lie with the biographer rather than with the subject of these memoirs.
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IN undertaking to write a Memoir of the late Sir Victor Brooke, coupled with extracts from his letters and diaries relating to travel and sporting adventures, I have not been actuated by the feeling that I possess any special qualification for the task, except that of an intimate friendship extending over twenty years.
With the slight literary advantages which I possess, that friendship, close as it had been, would not have been sufficient in itself to have induced me to attempt the onerous work, had not his widow urged me to do so, and expressed, with other relations, her Opinion that my knowledge of his life and character, and the personal affection I bore him, would perhaps enable me to do more justice to his memory than any one else could have done, even though armed with better literary credentials. However that may be, I trust those friends and such of the public as read these pages will find much to interest them; and when interest is found wanting, the fault will lie with the biographer rather than with the subject of these memoirs.
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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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
Victor Brooke
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780484020367
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Page Count - 329
Paperback
Contributors
Author
Victor Brooke
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780259474333
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Page Count - 331
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