The Land of Footprints

by Stewart Edward White

Overview

Some travel books authors try to impress the reader with a full sense of the danger and hardship they have undergone. Others are deadly afraid of bragging about their adventures, knowing, for instance, that hundreds of others have been charged by a lion and may be reading their book. In The Land of Footprints, Stewart Edward White attempts to be the ideal travel book author, one who tells the reader what the country, its people, and its animals are really like, "not in vague and grandiose 'word paintings,' not in strange and foreign sounding words and phrases, but in comparison with something they know." The Land of Footprints is the enormous enjoyable, immensely readable memoir of Stewart Edward White's year spent in East Equatorial Africa at the beginning of the 20th century. STEWART EDWARD WHITE (1873-1946) was born in Michigan and lived in California where he became known as the author of many articles, short stories, and books about the state's mining and lumber camps and his explorations around the world. He devoted the last thirty years of his life to writing accounts of his wife's mediumistic explorations of the inner dimensions of life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781514797938
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	07/01/2015
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Stewart Edward White (12 March 1873 - September 18, 1946) was an American writer, novelist, and spiritualist. He was a brother of noted mural painter Gilbert White.
White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness. He was a keen observer of the beauties of nature and human nature, yet could render them in a plain-spoken style. Based on his own experience, whether writing camping journals or Westerns, he included pithy and fun details about cabin-building, canoeing, logging, gold-hunting, and guns and fishing and hunting. He also interviewed people who had been involved in the fur trade, the California Gold Rush and other pioneers which provided him with details that give his novels verisimilitude. He salted in humor and sympathy for colorful characters such as canny Indian guides and "greenhorn" campers who carried too much gear. White also illustrated some of his books with his own photographs, while some of his other books were illustrated by artists, such as the American Western painter Fernand Lungren for "The Mountains" and "Camp and Trail". Theodore Roosevelt wrote that White was "the best man with both pistol and rifle who ever shot" at Roosevelt's rifle range at Sagamore Hill.[2]
The Long Rifle (1930), Folded Hills (1932), Ranchero (1933), and Stampede (1942) constitute The Saga of Andy Burnett, which follows a young Pennsylvania farm boy who escapes his overbearing step father by running away to the West with grandmother's blessing and "The Boone Gun", the original Kentucky rifle carried by Daniel Boone. He encounters mountain man Joe Crane, who becomes his mentor in the ways of survival in the wild. The remainder of the saga follows Andy as he moves west, ultimately settling in California, which is the setting of the last three books. The series incorporates actual events and characters from the time period in the narrative. The four stories were published as a posthumous volume, The Saga of Andy Burnett, in 1947, and were adapted into several episodes of The Wonderful World of Disney during 1957 and 1958, starring Jerome Courtland as Andy Burnett, and Jeff York (Mike Fink) as his friend and mentor Joe Crane. This series was in many ways a follow-up to Disney's much more successful Davy Crockett.

Table of Contents

I. ON BOOKS OF ADVENTURE

II. AFRICA

III. THE CENTRAL PLATEAU

IV. THE FIRST CAMP

V. MEMBA SASA

VI. THE FIRST GAME CAMP

VII. ON THE MARCH

VIII. THE RIVER JUNGLE

IX. THE FIRST LION

X. LIONS

XI. LIONS AGAIN

XII. MORE LIONS

XIII. ON THE MANAGING OF A SAFARI

XIV. A DAY ON THE ISIOLA

XV. THE LION DANCE

XVI. FUNDI

XVII. NATIVES

XVIII. IN THE JUNGLE

(a) The March to Meru

(b) Meru

(c) The Chiefs

(d) Out the Other Side

XIX. THE TANA RIVER

XX. DIVERS ADVENTURES ALONG THE TANA

XXI. THE RHINOCEROS

XXII THE RHINOCEROS (Continued)

XXIII. THE HIPPO POOL

XXIV. THE BUFFALO

XXVI. JUJA

XXVII. A VISIT AT JUJA

XXVIII. A RESIDENCE AT JUJA

XXIX. CHAPTER THE LAST