The strange life of Charles Waterton, 1782-1865.
Publisher: Duell, Sloan and Pearce
Published: 1949
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865.
Description: "From 1782 to 1865 there lived, mainly at Walton Hall in the county of Yorkshire in England, a man whose name was Charles Waterton. He was the Last Great Eccentric. Squire Waterton was also a farmer, a naturalist, and such a traveler as only an Englishman can be. His whole life made a pattern of odd adventure, some of whose highlights were his encounters with a boa constrictor, which he disposed of by a punch to the jaw; with a crocodile, which he rode up and down the Essequibo River; and with an unfortunate donkey. which he first poisoned experimentally with curare and then revived by means of a bellows..." -- Book Jacket.
Notes: "The Waterton material": p. 216-220.