Front matter
Reading edition
“It Can’t Be that You Want to Go Back to All Those Society Shams, After You’ve Seen Real Life!”
INTO THE PRIMITIVE
By ROBERT AMES BENNET
AUTHOR OF
“For the White Christ,” “Thyra,” Etc.
With Frontispiece in Colors By ALLEN T. TRUE
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
Copyright A. C. McClurg & Co. 1908
Published April 11, 1908 Second Edition, May 9, 1908 Third Edition, Aug. 1, 1908
To the man and to the beast; To the girl, the snake, the blossom; To fever and fire and fear; To hurricane blast and storm within; To bloody fang and venomed tooth; To love, to hate, to pain, to joy,– For of such is Life, In the Primitive–and out.
By Mr. Bennet
FOR THE WHITE CHRIST. A Story of the Days of Charlemagne. Illustrations in full color by the Kinneys. Twentieth thousand. $1.50.
A. C. McClurg & Co., Publishers
CONTENTS
I.Wave-tossed and Castaway11
II.Worse than Wilderness18
III.The Worth of Fire29
IV.A Journey in Desolation40
V.The Re-ascent of Man56
VI.Man and Gentleman67
VII.Around the Headland76
VIII.The Club Age87
IX.The Leopards’ Den105
X.Problems in Woodcraft123
XI.A Despoiled Wardrobe139
XII.Survival of the Fittest147
XIII.The Mark of the Beast159
XIV.Fever and Fire and Fear174
XV.With Bow and Club191
XVI.The Savage Manifest201
XVII.The Serpent Strikes212
XVIII.The Eavesdropper Caught226
XIX.An Ominous Lull235
XX.The Hurricane Blast251
XXI.Wreckage and Salvage263
XXII.Understanding and Misunderstanding272
XXIII.The End of the World284
XXIV.A Lion Leads Them299
XXV.In Double Salvation314