Captains of adventure

Chapter 64: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

A collection of spirited essays and portraits that defines and celebrates the adventurer as a romantic, practical pioneer who seeks peril and discovery rather than personal fortune. Drawing on historical examples, anecdotes and character sketches, the work contrasts earnest lone-hand explorers with self-promoting storytellers, examines virtues and follies common to daring lives, and emphasizes practical skill, courage and individuality. Presented as opinionated chapters illustrated with portraits, it blends reflection on the nature of adventure with compact biographies and vignettes of notable frontier figures, arguing that competence and moral idealism distinguish true adventurers from mere gamblers or braggarts.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations.

The pages in the introductory chapter “Adventurers” were not numbered. Transcriber did so with Roman numbers.

Page 210: “the overload Joy” may be a misprint for “the overloaded Joy”.