CHAPTER I
Amedeo Dorini, the hall porter of the Hotel Cavour
in Milan, stood on the pavement before the hotel one
autumn afternoon in the year 1894, waiting for the
omnibus, which had gone to the stat...
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HOW I KILLED A BEAR
So many conflicting accounts have appeared about my
casual encounter with an Adirondack bear last summer
that in justice to the public, to myself, and to the
bear, it is necessary ...
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Prague (dpa) - Strong gusting winds have hampered firefighters in
their battle to put out fires raging in two inaccessible pockets of
wilderness in eastern Slovakia, fire de...
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From the Fourth of July Lake trail, mountain bikers catch some of the widest views of the comb-like peaks of the Boulder-White Cloud mountains, but only if they can take their eyes off the wri...
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The 12-year-old Boy Scout rescued after spending four days alone and lost in the rugged North Carolina mountains remained hospitalized Wednesday, recovering from severe dehydration and exposure to ...
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Ugandan army raids in the country's troubled northeast killed up to 66 children who were shot or crushed by armored vehicles and stampeding animals, aid workers said Friday, citing witnesses.Childr...
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Warsaw (dpa) - A Chechen whose three children died of exposure
during an illegal border crossing through Poland's rugged Bieszczady
mountains was question by Polish authorit...
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Sean Penn made a disheartening discovery on his latest trip to Alaska this summer: Someone had walked off with a pair of boots that had sat in an old bus in the wilderness for almost 15 years.The b...
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There has been a series of starvation deaths in Japan as
struggling regional cities are forced to tighten welfare eligibility
standards, the New York Times reported Friday.
The report cite...
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An autistic 18-year-old lost in the wilderness for four days was found alive Thursday, weak but apparently fine, and reunited with his family, searchers said."To the best of our knowledge, he was j...
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Bear Grylls hopes his reputation as a blood-and-mud-covered adventurer hasn't been tarnished since it was revealed he wasn't totally roughing it during the previous season of his popular Discovery ...
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Bear Grylls hopes his reputation as a blood-and-mud-covered adventurer hasn't been tarnished since it was revealed he wasn't totally roughing it during the previous season of his popular Discovery ...
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In the Wilderness
Slovak firefighters battle blazes raging in wilderness areas
