tailieunhanh - PIONEERS IN CANADA

I have been asked to write a series of works which should deal with "real adventures", in parts of the world either wild and uncontrolled by any civilized government, or at any rate regions full of dangers, of wonderful discoveries; in which the daring and heroism of white men (and sometimes of white women) stood out clearly against backgrounds of unfamiliar landscapes, peopled with strange nations, savage tribes, dangerous beasts, or wonderful birds. | PIONEERS IN CANADA By SIR HARRY JOHNSTON . . WITH EIGHT COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS BYE. WALLCOUSINS 1912 The Pioneer Library A standard series by Sir Harry Johnston. Tastefully bound. Pioneers in Australasia. Pioneers in Canada. Pioneers in South Africa. Pioneers in West Africa. Pioneers in Tropical America. Pioneers in India. PREFACE I have been asked to write a series of works which should deal with real adventures in parts of the world either wild and uncontrolled by any civilized government or at any rate regions full of dangers of wonderful discoveries in which the daring and heroism of white men and sometimes of white women stood out clearly against backgrounds of unfamiliar landscapes peopled with strange nations savage tribes dangerous beasts or wonderful birds. These books would again and again illustrate the first coming of the white race into regions inhabited by people of a different type with brown black or yellow skins how the European was received and how he treated these races of the soil which gradually came under his rule owing to his superior knowledge weapons wealth or powers of persuasion. The books were to tell the plain truth even if here and there they showed the white man to have behaved badly or if they revealed the fact that the American Indian the Negro the Malay the black Australian was sometimes cruel and treacherous. A request thus framed was almost equivalent to asking me to write stories of those pioneers who founded the British Empire in any case the first volumes of this series do relate the adventures of those who created the greater part of the British Dominions beyond the Seas by their perilous explorations of unknown lands and waters. In many instances the travellers were all unconscious of their destinies of the results which would arise from their actions. In some cases they would have bitterly railed at Fate had they known that the result of their splendid efforts was to be the enlargement of an empire under the .

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