tiger hunting (5 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 124 pages. Carl N Taylor "Still Hunting"/ C V Trench "Ruled Out!"/ W Charnley "The Unlucky Gunman"/ Victor Dines Marooned In The Arctic - II"/ W H Easterbrook "Bhang" / George W Holmes "The Wizard" / H P Musson "A Bishop In The Wilds - I" / Robert Stanley and Edward M Walker "Across America In A Twenty-Dollar Car" / G S Warnock "My Persian Journey" / G C Clarke "A Brush With Wild Indians" / Denis Green "The Matelli Tiger" / B M Hill "The Island of Sanctuary" / W Gilhespy "Chunner The Thief" / Mabel Appleby "The Queer Side of Things - The Blind Seer" (SL#253).

Unframed Print. Condizione: Very Good. 1 page, image size 22 x 32 cms approx. Note; this is an original item separated from the larger volume, not a reprint or copy. Size: Page size 26 x 38 cms. Category: Illustrated Times; PRINTS : Historic News; Unframed Prints : Old. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

1924. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 718pp. 6 issues bound together in plain green cloth without the covers and advertisements. Monochrome and color photographs and illustrations, maps. Contributors include William (Billy) Mitchell, Brigadier-General (Tiger-Hunting in India), Vladimir M. Zenzinov (With an Exile in Arctic Siberia). (Travel).

8vo. 288 pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates. Black publisher's cloth, silver lettering on spine (slight shelfwear, very slight rubbing, minor foxing to fore-edges), w/ d.j. cover art photo of author on palanquin atop an Indian elephant (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing), still VG/VG copy, inscribed by author on ffep. First edition, inscribed, of this informative memoir by the author detailing his service with artillery in British-India Colonial Army, tiger hunting in India, Iraq, and on the borders with Afghanistan, prior to World War II. Of additional interest is his section on the sparsely populated region of India, Ladakh, bordering Tibet.

4to (164 x 205 mm). English manuscript diary on paper. 2 volumes, together with an engraved metal pendant. 46 ff.; 38 ff., plus unfilled blanks. With a pencil sketch of a tiger, coloured in watercolour wash, pasted to front endpaper. Contemporary leather-backed marbled boards. Two detailed diaries, in a single legible hand, recording tiger hunting expeditions in the Hyderabad region of India between 1848 and 1853. The anonymous author records a total of thirty-five kills during these periods, providing a forensic account of the hunt while utterly devoid of biographical information or comment on broader contemporary events: no mention is made, for example, of the Second Anglo-Sikh War that continued to rage. - Although the author was evidently a highly proficient and successful hunter, it is those entries that record his failures to secure his quarry which make for the most riveting reading: "a tiger reported to have killed upwards of 30 men over the last 4 or 5 months . the villagers supposed it was two but I concluded it was one tiger that did all the damage . I was just commencing my breakfast when a man ran up and reported the tiger had carried off a man early in the morning in the jungle a short distance to the S.W. . Got ready the elephant and started home, leaving breakfast untouched. Several people accompanied me to show me the place . they pointed at the place where the unfortunate man had been knocked over . the men . had seen the tiger rushing out . and had shouted out, but it was useless, he was knocked over in a second, on the road his turban and stick were lying and there was a slight mark in the road as of struggling. The other . men had made no attempt to rescue him except shouting and kicking up a row, as they knew he was too old a hand at man eating to be afraid of them . the body was lying dragged into a dry mullah about 150 yards from the road . the beast was lying down under one of the large trees about 100 yards ahead looking at us . I let fly and he gave one bound and I never saw him anymore". - Though not identified as such, the diaries came from the estates of the Turnbull family. A candidate for authorship may be Calcutta-born British Army officer Montagu James Turnbull (1819-94), who served with the 7th Regular Light Cavalry in the Punjab. Accompanying the diaries is a hallmarked silver medallion engraved "A. D. Turnbull, Dec. 1832". Montagu Turnbull had a brother, Alexander David Turnbull (1819-64), who served in India with the Royal Engineers. - Very well preserved. - From the Turnbull family estate, and potentially previously owned by British Army officer Montagu James Turnbull (1819-94).