{"product_id":"2940149306312","title":"Boris the Bear Hunter","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eI. The Hunter Hunted 9\u003cbr\u003eII. Boris Finds a New Friend 17\u003cbr\u003eIII. Boris Changes Masters 25\u003cbr\u003eIV. Boris Goes A-sailing 34\u003cbr\u003eV. How Peter the Great was knocked over 46\u003cbr\u003eVI. A Taste of the Knout 56\u003cbr\u003eVII. A Race for Life 70\u003cbr\u003eVIII. Boris and his Fellow-Officers 84\u003cbr\u003eIX. One Sword against Five 96\u003cbr\u003eX. A Night Ambush 108\u003cbr\u003eXI. A Battle against Odds 120\u003cbr\u003eXII. A Perilous Slide 132\u003cbr\u003eXIII. Boris Goes on the War-path 144\u003cbr\u003eXIV. Taken Prisoner 155\u003cbr\u003eXV. An Exciting Escape 167\u003cbr\u003eXVI. Home Again 181\u003cbr\u003eXVII. Off to England 193\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. How Boris threw a Big Dutchman Overboard     204\u003cbr\u003e[6]  \u003cbr\u003eXIX. Bad News from Moscow 215\u003cbr\u003eXX. Boris in Disgrace 228\u003cbr\u003eXXI. Nancy and the Big Bear 243\u003cbr\u003eXXII. A Wolf Maiden 253\u003cbr\u003eXXIII. A Notable Day among the Wolves 266\u003cbr\u003eXXIV. With the Tsar Again 278\u003cbr\u003eXXV. Boris has a Narrow Escape 290\u003cbr\u003eXXVI. How Boris Outwitted the Swedish Admiral 303\u003cbr\u003eXXVII. Small Beginnings of a Great City 315\u003cbr\u003eXXVIII. How the Swedes Erected a Gibbet for Boris 326\u003cbr\u003eXXIX. Mazeppa 340\u003cbr\u003eXXX. Russia's Great Day 353\u003cbr\u003eXXXI. Peace at Last 366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003eTHE HUNTER HUNTED.\u003cbr\u003eThe moment at which I propose to introduce my readers to Boris the Bear-Hunter came very near, as it happened, to being the last which my hero was destined to spend upon this earth. Great hunter as Boris was, there is no doubt about it that on this particular occasion he met his match, and came within measurable distance of defeat at the hands—or rather paws—of one of the very creatures whose overthrow was at once his profession and his glory.\u003cbr\u003eIt happened many a year ago—about two hundred, in fact; and the scene of Boris's adventure was an exceedingly remote one, far away in the north of Europe, close to Archangel.\u003cbr\u003eBoris Ivanitch was a peasant whose home was an outlying village near the large town just mentioned. He was a serf, of course, as were all his fellows at that time; but in consequence of his wonderful strength and courage, and of his aptitude for pursuing and killing every kind of wild beast and game, he was exempt, by favour of his lord, both from taxation and from the manual labour which the owner of the soil could have exacted from him. In a word, Boris was employed to keep the country clear, or as clear as possible, of bears and wolves, which, when left to themselves, were at that time the cause of much danger and loss to the inhabitants of that portion of the Russian empire.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bronson Tweed Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111927464176,"sku":"2940149306312","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149306312_p0.jpg?v=1763714700","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149306312","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}