Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India

George P Sanderson, Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India: Their Haunts and Habits from Personal Observation; with an Account of the Modes of Capturing and Taming Elephants, Edinburgh: John Grant, 1912

xviii, 387 pages, 24 illustrations from original drawings; publishers' green cloth, gilt title and hunting scene in gilt and black to upper cover, gilt leopard vignette to spine.
8.75 x 7.25 in (22.5 x 18.5 cm)

A detailed work on the Indian elephant, Sanderson details the natural history and chapters on rounding up and taming elephants. The hunting covers rogue elephants in Mysore and Bengal, numerous tiger encounters, also panther and leopard. A title which ran to many editions, seldom found in this condition, the author was the government officer for elephant catching in Mysore.

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