Os Caçadores de Cabeças - The Scalp Hunters

Thomas Mayne Reid

Rede Brasileira de Livros

1970

146 páginas

4h 52m

ISBN-1: 0

Português Brasileiro

The Scalp Hunters: A Romance of the Plain (1851) / The Scalp Hunters (1860).
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'(...) "Captain" Reid wrote many adventure novels that takes place primarily in untamed settings: the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica. . . Russell Miller, in his biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, credits Mayne Reid as being one of Conan Doyle's favorite childhood authors and a great influence on Conan Doyle's writings. (...) Books such as the Young Voyagers had great popularity, especially with boys. He was also very popular around the world; his tales of the American West captivated children everywhere, including Europe and Russia. Among his books, many of which were popular in translation in Poland and Russia, were The Rifle Rangers (1850), Scalp Hunters (1851), Boy Hunters (1853), War Trail (1851), Boy Tar (1859), and Headless Horseman (1865/6).

Vladimir Nabokov recalled The Headless Horseman as a favourite adventure novel of his childhood years - "which had given him a vision of the prairies and the great open spaces and the overarching sky." (...) In his autobiography, United States President Teddy Roosevelt credits Mayne Reid with being a major early inspiration. The shy, asthmatic aristocrat, Theodore Roosevelt, would grow up to pursue naturalistic zoology and adventure travel. This author Mayne Reid's adventure books for boys may be the inspiration for our national park expansions which occurred under T. Roosevelt's two terms in office.