Wild Cargo (book)

Wild Cargo

first edition cover (1932)
Author Frank Buck
Edward Anthony
Country United States
Language English
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Publication date
1932
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 244
Preceded by Bring 'Em Back Alive
Followed by Fang and Claw
Co-authors Anthony (left) and Buck signing copies of Wild Cargo

Wild Cargo was Frank Buck’s second book, a best seller. Buck continued his tales of his adventures capturing exotic animals.[1] Writing with Edward Anthony, Buck related many of his experiences working with jungle creatures.

Chapters

Buck was a keen observer and student of animal psychology and includes occasional bits of shocking realism, for example in "Killer of Killers" he relates the story of a man-eating tiger that could be trapped by only one kind of bait: human flesh. In "Coiled Lightning" he describes an encounter with a hungry python. In "Spitting Cobra" he tells of a painful meeting with one of the most unpleasant snakes in the world. In "The Patsy" Buck tells the story of a young female elephant who had nothing but bad luck; in "Black Fury" of a leopard who escaped from his cage on shipboard; and in "Terrible Tusks" of a tremendous conflict, witnessed by his native assistant, between two bull elephants contending for the mastery of a herd of females. "A Bear In Time" is the story of a destructive honey bear that Buck used to rid himself of a bore, who had threatened to move into his house. “Animal Magic” describes native medicines: tigers' gall bladders, hairs from elephants' tails and leopards' shoulder bones. “Striped Demon,” the final chapter, is the thrilling story of an attack on Buck by a tiger he is trying to film.

Critical reception

"Enough legitimate action and suspense to make a dozen average jungle motion picture films" [2]

References

  1. Lehrer, Steven (2006). Bring 'Em Back Alive: The Best of Frank Buck. Texas Tech University press. pp. x–xi. ISBN 0-89672-582-0.
  2. RL Duffus. All of the Inhabitants of Noah’s Ark. New York Times. May 29, 1932
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