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Vendeur : Callahan and Company Booksellers, Peterborough, NH, Etats-Unis
Livre
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. The Indian Heritage, Hazaribagh, 1987. Illustrated with b&w photographs and reproductions. 6.5" x 10". 255 pp. Green cloth. This is a history of horsemanship in India, plus the fundamentals of horsemanship, schooling, etc. "I have written with a subjective Indian, or possibly Indo-British slant". Chapters on bits, martingales, spurs; jumping; hunting lions and other game on horseback: "a certain cavalry officer galloped lion .and accounted for no less than eighty lion .quite a few .having been shot around Delhi, about the middle of the last century"; tent pegging, and two chapters on pig sticking. Very good in very good wrapper.
Edité par Allied Publishers, India, 1979
Vendeur : SAFARI BOOKS, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. The late author, Imam ( born in 1920) was a Professional Brown Hunter in India, comparing the White Hunters in Africa. This volume deals with India s Big 5: Tiger, Elephant, Leopard, Buffalo and the Indian Gaur., with a Foreword by William Lee Birch of Professional Hunters Ltd. Cleveland, Ohio who had hunted big game with the Author several times and worked as his agent also. This is a presentation copy from William Lee itch to one of his clients, George Ziegler, nicely inscribed and signed. The tales includes hunting several marauding tigers and elephants. Illustrated with photographs, 240 pages with index. First edition, First printing, Very good book in like DJ.