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TITLE: Nilgiri Sporting Reminiscences
AUTHOR: Dawson (G.A.R.D) "An Old Shikari"
PUBLISHER: Higginbotham & Co.
PLACE: Madras
YEAR: 1880
BINDING: Decorative green cloth gilt
NO.OF PAGES: xii + 150 including frontispiece and 25 tipped plates, all photographic, most after drawings, some of animal heads etc.
SIZE:
Height: 22.4 cm
Width: 16 cm
Depth: 2 cm
"An excellent work describing hunting on the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India, this features chapters on stalking ibex, sambur and spotted deer, with additional accounts of encounters with tigers and leopards. Of further interest are several descriptions of hunting must, or temporarily mad, elephants by other sportsmen, and stalking bison in the Bowany Valley." (Czech)
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