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Adventure impelled Daniel Boone, in his eternal quest for a solitary fire near a fountain of sweet water, to move ever westward. Lord Byron, who had more than a passing acquaintance with adventure, eulogized Boone and his breed...
...done in America. The West has long since been closed to the pioneer, and its closing was mourned more than a century ago by Francis Parkman, a sickly Harvard law student who became a Western adventurer: "We did not dream how commerce and gold would breed nations along the Pacific, the disenchanting screech of the locomotive break the spell of weird mysterious mountains, women's rights invade the fastnesses of the Arapahoes, and despairing savagery, assailed in front and rear, vail its scalp-locks and feathers before the triumphant commonplace." Or, Parkman might add today, how a security-minded...
Adventure does not preclude a lofty aim. There is a whole new breed of Americans who seek adventure in politics or war abroad, including a small, constantly changing, necessarily anonymous group of American youths who have joined with European contemporaries to spirit East Germans through the Berlin Wall. Adventure is also constantly produced in the name of scientific exploration, but whatever the admixture of other causes, the true adventurer is an idealist only by the way; he is really after adventure for its own sake...
These are the sound stealers at work, a new breed that has cropped up with the advent of high-powered portable tape recorders. For decades, private collectors have made tapes of live performances by recording them off radio broadcasts in their homes. But the best broadcast is never as good as being there in person. Now, like undercover agents, collectors are sneaking their machines into concert halls, theaters, opera houses and nightclubs and taking home more than a memory of an evening's performance. The most popular battery-powered recorder being used is the $375 German-made Uher...
Meriwether Lewis Moon, the missionary's counterpart, is a college-educated Cheyenne half-breed who follows the small wars around the world, selling his gun to the highest bidder. He hates the white man for what he has done to the Indian, and he enters the jungle to rejoin the living tradition of his race. As he slowly descends upon them, haloed in a parachute, the Niaruna fall on their knees and worship him as Kisu...