What is an adventurer? One who has adventures? Surely not. A person charged by a wild rhinoceros is having an adventure, yet however wild the animal, however wild the person, he is only somebody wishing himself at home, not an adventurer. In dictionaries the adventurer is “one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.” But outside the pages of a dictionary, the man who seeks his fortune, who really cares for money and his own advantage, sits at some desk deriding the fools who take thousand-to-one chances in a gamble with Death.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9782385745097 ● File size 2.7 MB ● Publisher Librorium Editions ● Published 2023 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 9271582 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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