From the very enthusiastic dust jacket:
WILD LIFE THE WORLD OVER
In a Setting of Untamed Nature
640 Pages of Exciting Adventures! 380 Thrilling Photos-8 FULL COLOR!
Ever since WM. H. WISE & CO. first delighted thousands with "AMERICAN WILD LIFE." we have been swamped with requests to bring out a Companion Volume covering the wild life of all the world. Here it is! A volume even more exciting, entertaining, educational! An even greater bargain! The scope of a wild life library of all the continents in ONE BIG Lavishly Illustrated Book!
It's chockful of thrilling true wild life stories! Jam-packed with hundreds of unusual, beautiful pictures–8 in FULL NATURAL COLORS!
You read amazing factual tales of animal lore in dark forbidding areas of Africa, Australia, Asia, Europe, South America, countless small islands and even on the ocean floors, all over the entire earth! You see awe-inspiring photos of all the major and many rare little-known species of animals, birds, fishes, amphibians, insects and reptiles–taken in their native haunts, against a background of un- tamed nature! Many ACTUAL WILD ANIMAL BATTLE PHOTOS!
This magnificent treasury of wild animal life is written by world-famous big-game hunters, naturalists and explorers. Men who braved the worst terrors imaginable to entertain and enlighten you and your children with authentic stories and on-the- spot pictures. It is accurate and scientific, applauded by experts yet thrillingly written, filled with beauty and intrigue.
SEE Man Battle Beast! Beast Battle Beast!
Here in this huge volume of stranger-than-fiction natural marvels are unusual word and picture stories of fights to the death told in thrilling terrifying detail.
Thrill to American explorer Carl Akely's hand- to-claw combat with a wild leopard! A man-eating tiger's attack up a native "beater" in full view of expedition and camera! The fearful case of the cameraman caught in his "camera-hide" by a herd of wild elephants! The point blank charge of the enraged rhinoceros! The abduction by a crocodile of a man who was fording a river; thrust inte an underwater hole, he lived to tell his incredible story! Truly a book designed for the enjoyment and edification of the entire family!
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