The Life and Adventures of Jules Gérard: Containing a History and Description of Algeria

Jules Gérard is considered one of the greatest African Lion hunters of his generation, he built a durable career out of his formidable ability to track and kill the menacing lion thus ridding the village of its unwanted guest. In the following pages Gérard has chronicled many of the experiences that befell him while hunting the African Lion.Treating his subject in an earnest, simple manner, he shows his kindly heart even in the battle for life or death that he daily fights, and protecting his game with sweeping sarcasm from all poaching traps, pit falls, and assassin’s wiles, he wages none but an equal and loyal warfare.

From inside the book:
IN presenting the readers of the Amusing Library with a new and more largely illustrated Edition of the very popular work of M. Jules Gerard, it has been thought that it would be acceptable to them to add a few chapters, descriptive of the very remarkable country in which the Lion-killer's adventures took place; and this the rather, because, among English readers at least, Algeria seems hardly hitherto to have become invested with sufficient interest to induce any more than ordinary acquaintance with its present condition, its history, or resources. And yet, in truth, there are few countries on the face of the earth, which for physical peculiarities, agricultural and general commercial productiveness, and, above all, historical associations, are more deserving of attention and study.

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