Monday, February 18, 2008

Death in the Wilds, a February 18, 1905 review in the New York Times of Lure of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace


The following review of The Lure of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace appeared in the New York Times on this date in 1905.
DEATH IN THE WILDS.; Dillon Wallace's Story of the Ill-Fated Labrador Exploring Expedition.

February 18, 1905

Saturday Section: REVIEW OF BOOKS, Page BR2, 1577 words

IT is a homely and pitiful story of enterprise, disappointment, and starvation that this survivor of an amateur exploring expedition of three has to tell. Its manifest moral is that it does not do to start wrong if you would go exploring.


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The unabridged audio edition of The Lure of the Labrador Wild narrated by Jody Richardson is available from Rattling Books.