 | Field Sports in India 1800-1947 - Major-General J.G.Elliott Condition Very Good Published by Gentry Books, London 1973 ISBN 0856140236 The life of the British in India was cruelly dismissed by Vanity Fair as 'duty and red tape, picnics and adultery'. However the author demonstrates that for many men - and for some notable women too - it was through sport that they sought relaxation and relief from the routine of their working life. 223pp illustrated in black and white. # 18676s100 More...
Price: £14.00 / $21.00
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|  | Hunters Moon - Leonard M.H.Handley Condition Good Plus Published by Macmillan, London 1933 A book about big game hunting in the jungles of the Far East where the author has striven to depart from the normal account of slaughter, paraphernalia and methods to lyrically describe the vast green silences where he maintains only man is vile. 267pp0 with black and white plates. # 18725s97 More...
Price: £80.00 / $120.00
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|  | Forest Life and Sport in India - Sainthill Eardley-Wilmot Condition Very Good Published by Edward Arnold, London 1910 321pp with black and white plates. The author was late Inspector of Forests to the Indian Government and in addition to forest sports he covers the early awareness for the need of conservation. # 18718s97 More...
Price: £80.00 / $120.00
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 | Hunter at Heart - B.N.Gordon Graham Condition Good Published by Herbert Jenkins, London 1950 Dedicated by the author to the Jungle Folk in India and Ceylon, in particular to the Shikaris and Trackers from remote jungle hamlets, in whose company I have spent many happy days with gun and rifle. 222pp with black and white plates together with line illustrations by A.I.Cameron # 18690s97 More...
Price: £16.00 / $24.00
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|  | Leaves from Indian Forests - Sir S.Eardley-Wilmot Condition Good Plus Published by Edward Arnold, London 1930 Sketches, jotted down at intervals of twenty five years' service in India, commencing with a night in the forest on a tiger stake out. 200pp with black and white plates. # 18689s97 More...
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|  | Walker's Manly Excercises and Rural Sports, edited by "Craven" Condition Very Good Published by Wm. S.Orr & Co, London 1851 Ninth edition Containing Rowing, Sailing, Riding, Driving, Racing, Hunting, Shooting and other manly sports. An early book extolling the advantages of physical excercise. xii, 264pp plus index, gilt edged. 44 instructional plates with numerous illustrative wood engravings throughout the texts. Gilt and blind stamped publishers cloth. # 18644 More...
Price: £85.00 / $127.50
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