Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Harrison & Sons, London, 1914. xv, 137 pp. + Ads. Complete with 5 full page illustrations and 2 vignettes as issued. Ex-lib item with typical marks (library stamps present). Bound in plain blue buckram cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards in have shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Numerous sporting adventures, including stalking Ovis ammon, tahr, markhor, ibex, barasingh and bear. Bairnsfather also includes a chapter of pig sticking memories in addition to some angling experiences . During the first decade of the twentieth century, the demand for hunting far outstripped the supply of the hunting areas, especially that of markhor. The drive to bag a record size trophy of the 'patriarch' resulted in the shooting of many not so magnificent heads. Bairnsfather, who hunted in Astor and Gilgit in the 1913, looked for a "really good head" of markhor and wrote the following: 1914 Sport & Nature in the Himalayas Lt Col Bairnsfather Big Game Hunting Track Page Views WithAuctiva's FREE Counter
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Author: P. R. Bairnsfather
Binding: Hardcover
Character Family: Sport & Nature in the Himalayas
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
Place of Publication: London
Publisher: Harrison and Sons
Region: Europe
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Ex-Library, Illustrated, Big Game Hunting, Himalayas
Subject: Outdoor & Nature
Topic: Himalayas; Big Game Hunting
Year Printed: 1914
Origin: English
