Fifteen Years' Sport and Life: In the Hunting Grounds of Western America and British Columbia. E-book. Formato PDF Grohman   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

To be quite accurate in the use of the title that I have selected, I must qualify it by stating that I did not live for fifteen consecutive years on the Pacific Slope of North America. I spent the majority of each of fifteen years out there, making British Columbia - a land of great beauty and of promising future - my temporary home for some years. The ocean I crossed some thirty times, and the Continent of North America a few odd times oftener.The first four or five visits were exclusively devoted to big game shooting. Sport such as I enjoyed in the "seventies" and early "eighties" is no longer to be obtained - nothing approaching it - and for this reason, if for no other, these pages will, I hope, be of interest to fellow sportsmen. So far as record trophies are concerned I have spared no trouble to make this volume up-to-date, and as much as possible free from mistakes. The second half of the book is devoted to life on the Pacific Slope. These chapters contain personal reminiscences and experiences which will perhaps assist the casual visitor or the stay-at-home reader to gain an insight into the practical issues of life on the frontier.

The Land in the Mountains: Being an Account of the Past Present of Tyrol, Its People and Its Castles. E-book. Formato PDF Grohman   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

God's blessing rest upon this house, and after some other signatures of royalties, we read in a childish scrawl Spatz (sparrow) which was the nickname of the Empress Elizabeth's favorite youngest sister, and the word was written by her hand guided by the Empress's. What sad interest does not the tragic fate of these two sisters attach to that childish bit of penmanship!

Tyrol and the Tyrolese: The People and the Land in Their Social, Sporting, and Mountaineering Aspects. E-book. Formato PDF Grohman   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

A certain value may, I hope, be imparted to this volume by the fact that I have lived for many years in the Tyrol, and being by parentage half an Austrian, and as well acquainted with the German language as with my mother tongue, am therefore more likely to gain a true insight into the lives and characters of the Tyrolese than most writers on the same subject, who have not this advantage.