Into the Wild: 19 Stories of Unforgettable Hunting Expeditions
Nineteen Classic Tales of Big-Game Pursuit, Frontier Peril, and Wilderness SurvivalBy James Oliver Curwood, Charles King, Mikkjel FÃ ̧nhus, T. C. Harbaugh, Edward Sylvester Ellis, Robert Morris Peck, Frederick Courteney Selous, Anne Bowman, Mayne Reid, Quincy Allen, Edward Stratemeyer, A. Hyatt Verrill
Length122h 18m
About this audiobook
Into the Wild gathers nineteen hunting narratives that chart the contested imaginative territory of wilderness, pursuit, survival, and encounter. Ranging from brisk adventure tale and frontier romance to natural-history-inflected expedition narrative, the collection reveals how hunting fiction converted unfamiliar landscapes into sites of danger, discipline, and wonder. Memorable episodes of tracking, perilous travel, and confrontations with formidable animals stand beside accounts attentive to weather, terrain, camp life, and the fragile border between human mastery and vulnerability. Read today, these stories also invite reflection on the environmental and imperial assumptions embedded in classic adventure writing. Its contributors represent a broad Anglo-American and Scandinavian tradition of popular outdoor literature, including novelists of the North American frontier, writers of boys' adventure, travelers, and authors shaped by firsthand or carefully researched knowledge of wildlife and remote regions. Their varied settings and narrative temperaments connect the volume to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century traditions of exploration romance, juvenile fiction, conservation-era nature writing, and colonial adventure. Together, these voices disclose both the exhilaration of the hunt and the cultural values through which wilderness was imagined, claimed, and narrated. Recommended for readers of adventure literature, animal studies, environmental humanities, and popular fiction, this anthology offers an unusually rich comparative archive. Its compact range of styles and locales encourages productive dialogue between excitement, observation, ethics, and history.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length122 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Great Heroes of Wild West (Illustrated) (Annotated)
2The Wolf Hunters: A Tale of Adventure in the Wilderness
3CHAPTER V
4CHAPTER VI
5CHAPTER VII
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6CHAPTER VIII
7CHAPTER IX
8CHAPTER X
9CHAPTER XI
10CHAPTER XII
11CHAPTER XIII
12CHAPTER XIV
13CHAPTER XV
14CHAPTER XVI
15Rancho Del Muerto, and Other Stories of Adventure by Various Authors, from "Outing"
16Rancho Del Muerto, and Other Stories of Adventure by Various Authors, from "Outing"
17RANCHO DEL MUERTO, By Charles King, Capt. U. S. Army.
18A MIGHTY HUNTER BEFORE THE LORD, By Virginius Dabney.
19A CAHUTTA VALLEY SHOOTING MATCH, By Will N. Harben
20THE MYSTERY OF A CHRISTMAS HUNT, By Talbot Torrance
21UNCLE DUKE'S “B'AR” STORY, By Lillian Gilfillan
22WHICH MISS CHARTERIS? By C. G. Rogers
23THE BEAR 'S-HEAD BROOCH, By Ernest Ingersoll
24MISS GWYNNE'S BURGLAR, By Violet Etynge Mitchell
25THE BREAKING OF WINTER, By Patience Stapleton
26The Trail of the Elk (pt. 1)
27The Trail of the Elk (pt. 2)
28The Wolf Hunters
29CHAPTER I TOM'S PLAN
30CHAPTER II WE GET OUR DISCHARGES
31CHAPTER III WE FIND AN OUTFIT
32CHAPTER IV BACK TO THE BUFFALO RANGE
33CHAPTER V WE MEET DOUBTFUL CHARACTERS
34CHAPTER VI STANDING OFF THE JAYHAWKERS
35CHAPTER VII JACK TAKES A PRISONER
36CHAPTER VIII TOM'S STRATEGY
37CHAPTER IX BUFFALO NEAR THE BIG BEND
38CHAPTER X WHY SATANK KILLED PEACOCK
39CHAPTER XI WE REACH FORT LARNED
40CHAPTER XII OUR CAMP ON WALNUT CREEK
41CHAPTER XIII KILLED BY THE INDIANS
42CHAPTER XIV SATANTA'S STORY
43CHAPTER XV WILD BILL VISITS US
44CHAPTER XVI TOM LOCKS THE STABLE DOOR
45CHAPTER XVII VOLUNTEER TROOPS AT LARNED
46CHAPTER XVIII BILL RETURNS FROM HIS SCOUT
47CHAPTER XIX A NIGHT IN THE KIOWA CAMP
48CHAPTER XX WE TRADE WITH INDIANS
49CHAPTER XXI JACK'S CLOSE CALL
50CHAPTER XXII SATANK ARRIVES
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