Adventures into the Unknown: The Were-tiger of Assam and other stories

The guy's a regular Race Bannon. A less jerky protagonist than the last WereTiger story, but still no happy ending. No bestiality you know. It's also a bit more of your regular pulp-y "real man" adventure. Our hero basically runs over everybody, the villain crackles and explains everything, a hot lady "prize" shows up, everybody bows down to him and there's a convenient wrap up ending. There's some really nice tiger art in this. The artist was using an actual reference!

Here there are some interesting ideas in an otherwise average adventure story. On page four Clint pulls a gun on Tigra while she is in her tiger form and she doesn't seem to realize it. Is she incapable of recognizing a gun in her tiger form? Does filtering her consciousness through a tiger brain interfere with how she sees the world?

I can see how that could be. Sir Charles Dilke describes him as an out-and-out free trader, a fluent witty speaker, a popular lecturer, and author of some of the stiffest Indian 'tiger stories'. Tirhoot Rhymes by James Inglis is a collection of sporting verse. The Diary Of A Hunter: More hunting and fishing books by John H Roush.

The author, an officer in the Gurkha Rifles, describes his hunts after marauding tiger and leopard near Dhobghata, Pipalhjonpa, Palasghata and other regions of India. Daniel Johnson - was a surgeon for the East India Company. He was appointed assistant surgeon in the Bengal medical service in when he conducted experiments on snakebite, and later communicated his findings to his fellow Bengal surgeon James Johnson.

He was promoted to surgeon in , and retired from the service in Sketches Of Indian Field Sports: With Observations On The Animals by Daniel Johnson is an account of the author's travels and experiences in India, including the hunting of buffalos, tigers and leopards in the jungles around Ramghur, Rogonautpore and Bundbissunpore. Sketches Of Field Sports As Followed By The Natives Of India by Daniel Johnson includes tales of pigeons and hyenas, hawking, coursing with greyhounds, variant methods of catching tigers and other wild cats, smoking porcupines and more, with a few anecdotal tangents on manufacturing iron and silk and Indian social customs.

Free eBook This is Daniel Johnson's 1st book printed in His second book was printed in with a similar title. The book was originally published as 'Gwalior ', as it was a narrative of the official visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Gwalior in the year The book was written at the request of the Maharaja Scindia who wanted to record this event. The title of book was changed because it also was an in-depth study about the historical Gwalior and the Scindias who ruled over it for centuries. Sher Jung - was a freedom fighter, writer, hunter and a pioneer wildlife conservationist.

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Tryst With Tigers by Sher Jung After several chapters describing the habit and life of tigers, the author recounts his hunts in the Kalagarh Forest of the Tarai Bhabar and near the Kumaon district. Ramblings In Tigerland by Sher Jung is about three different encounters in the wild including his long chase of 'Landa', the vile, stump-tailed man-eating tiger. The contributors come from various walks of life conservation, wildlife, ecology, photography and film-making bound by a common interest in the tiger including Jim Corbett , the hunter turned conservationist who edited India's first magazine on the subject.

Trails, Trouts And Tigers: Hunting moose, sheep, pronghorn, goat, elk, polar bear, duck and goose, tiger in India, elephant in Africa, fishing for bass, muskellunge, trout, marlin, tuna, grayling, Atlantic and Pacific salmon, mahseer, bonefish, tarpon and more. By Mountain, Lake And Plain: He had the best areas made available to him for hunting, also bagging maral stag and tiger.

Big game hunting plus observations of falcons, yaks and other indigenous creatures of the Himalaya region of Northern India and Tibet, in a series of well-told episodes. Diversions Of An Indian Political by R L Kennion is a collection of reminiscences about British rule in India - the 'diversions' being lots of tiger, bear and deer hunting.

The author, a great fan of Jim Corbett, was able to bag several man-eaters from the Sunderban jungles where tiger was the king. William Henry Giles Kingston - was a prolific English author of adventure novels for boys. Includes much on the sheep, markhor and ibex. Tales Of Large Game Shooting by Alexander Kinloch is the revised edition of two volumes 'Large Game Shooting in Tibet and the North-West' and had been the complete guide book for sportsmen, researchers, scholars, wildlife lovers and for all those interested in travels and exploration of nature.

The book should also serve a guide book for the preservation of nature, history and specimens. Mainly shooting but with an interlude of mahseer fishing. Tigers, deer, panthers and others, with many observations of local life and culture. Through The Jungle Very Softly: It goes from the earliest story by William Blane in to the latest story by Robert Ruark in Colonel Cuthbert Larking - was a big game hunter who served in the 15th Hussars in India.

Besides writing about his hunting exploits, he dabbled in writing romantic novels. In he was appointed as the English aide-de-camp to the Khedive of Egypt and also held positions in the households of Queen Victoria and her son the Duke of Connaught. Big game hunting in the Deccan jungles. While there they hunted wild boar, attempted to climb Mount Everest and hunted some tigers, jackals, lynxes, hyenas and wolves. Discusses the dangers of hunting tiger and elephant, the loss of life among British officers and being seriously wounded himself by a tiger.

The author was a friend of Hemingway and wrote this book at Ernest's suggestion. It is the record of a Chicago salesman following an elusive Bengal tiger. Having hunted in Africa earlier, Leahy was obsessed with adding a tiger to his trophy list, and he arranged a shikar in Central India for 18 days from in This book describes his daily records in pursuit of big game in India and details of bagging a leopard etc. On the last day, he was able to fulfill his ambition.

I'd Like To Go Again: A Diplomat Off Duty by Sir Francis Lindley is a book of sporting reminiscences including tiger hunting, salmon fishing, duck shooting and more. Lt Col Arthur Locke b. His tasks included combating Communist terrorist gangs and killing tigers which attacked humans or domestic animals. Trengganu is a remote state in northeastern Malaya and Colonel Locke was sent there to be the British Government Administration officer.

Part of his duties were to hunt and kill tigers who were man-eaters or who were destroying domestic animals. He collected a vast quantity of information about the tigers - their distribution, size, habits, diet, the way in which they make their kills and train their cubs, the territory they cover, and the superstitions and legends about them. Sporting memories of a Horse and Field Artilleryman in India. Includes chapters on mahseer fishing with frogs as bait , trout fishing in Kashmir, hunting tiger, Tibetan argal, ibex, gazelle, bear, shooting bustard and pig sticking in India and Iraq.

Major-General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice - was a British general, military correspondent, writer and academic. Includes bear and tiger hunting in India as well as pig-sticking and polo. In Malay Forests by Sir George Maxwell is a collection of autobiographical articles set in the states of the Malay Peninsula over quite a period of time. They illustrate George Maxwell's deep interest in the forests of the country. The book is contained in brown wallet with an accompanying separate big game register.

The register is divided into dates, species, locality, measurements, remarks. The game mentioned include crocodile, panther, sloth, bear, tiger and python. The author goes into detail on the hunt and the shot. A very scarce item and unique with the register. A study of tigers in the Indian subcontinent, with special reference to the Nepalese terai. He and his wife hunted tigers in India on their honeymoon, as guests of a maharajah. Lt Col Augustus Ferryman Mockler-Ferryman - served in the Oxfordshire Light Infantry and was a prolific author of books on the countries in which he was stationed.

This is a personal account of a hunting trip by the author who travelled through Benares, Lucknow, Simla and Delhi. The charming plates are made after drawings by the author himself, of which many depict elephant and tiger scenes. Behind The Lens In Tigerland by Arthur Musselwhite includes photos by the author showing tigers in India and Nepal, other wildlife, local people and elephant-back tiger hunts. Most of the book is taken from the author's journals and notebooks. Much on tiger hunting including an account of a sporting feat by a "lamented brother" of a successful right and left shot at tigers.

Scottish Moors And Indian Jungles: Details of his travels in Lewis for deer, grouse and fishing. Part II covers bear and tiger hunting in India. Hog Hunting In The East: Assam Shikari by Frank Nicholls During 50 years in India, the author managed to bag numerous animals including 28 tigers and many leopards. He also fished Mahseer in many waters.

Samuel H Noble b. He is not to be confused with Sam 'Buckskin' Stone Hall. The author tells of his life and adventures on the sea, with Indians in South America, on a sheep ranch in South America, a visit to Liverpool, England, his recruitment into the British Army, thrilling times in India, big game hunting, return to England and his return to New York. Oliphant spent some of his early years in Ceylon, where his father was chief justice.

In he was invited by Jung Bahadur to join a hunting excursion in Nepal and it is this trip that forms the basis of this work. He was a keen naturalist and made notes of his observations during postings in various parts of India. Osmaston arrived in India in , bagging his first tiger near Mundali, he spent much of his career as a forest officer in various regions and recounts numerous encounters with big game.

Much of the book is related to the birds and fauna of India. Charlie 'Snaffles' Johnson Payne was a British artist who was considered as one of the greatest sporting and military artist of his time. He developed an early passion for hunting in all its forms, and the Services which, as he tells us, "in those days went hand in hand". He joined the Royal Garrison Artillery at the age of 18 as a gunner but in he was forced to leave because of illness. However, his time in the army was influential, as his first recorded works of semi-caricature portrait date from this time. Invalided out of World War One, Payne took a job as a war artist for 'The Graphic' and it was during these years that he produced some of his finest military work.

It was as a sporting artist that 'Snaffles' built his reputation and, after the War, he worked on the hunting, shooting, polo, racing and fishing subjects which made his name. The classic series of pig-sticking prints he completed in India in the s are perhaps the images for which he is best known and his depictions of military life in the Raj are second to none. The author recounts pig-sticking exploits with brief notes on sambar and tiger, excellent colour plates and drawings.

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Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Henry William Peacock - was a forest and game warden in Burma and went on to have a distinguished career as a British Officer commanding special forces operations behind Japanese lines in Burma during the Second World War. Brigadier-General Sir Robert Pigot - had an illustrious military career and was a remarkable big game hunter. Big game hunting moose in Norway, mouflon, deer and boar in Sardinia, ibex in Egypt, tiger, leopard, ibex, bear, markhor, antelope, sheep, burhel and other game in India, gaur and tsaine in Burma, sheep in Mongolia, deer in Siam, tiger in Siberia, caribou in Newfoundland, ibex, wapiti and sheep in China, sheep in the Russian Parmirs and red deer in New Zealand.

A scarce work detailing in scientific terms the primates and carnivores in India, Burma and Ceylon. The sections on the carnivores includes numerous references to big game hunters such as Stockley , Dunbar Brander , Colonel Kennion and others. Sporting Days In Southern India: There is also helpful advice on travel, camping and even how to prepare for the monsoon season.

Adventure and danger during Victorian times in India, Africa and the Azores. Mostly big game hunting with much trouble with the servants. Colonel Pollok's finest work, recalling his adventures of hunting tiger, leopard, rhino, buffalo, elephant and other big game in the Indian subcontinent.

He was known to have shot a rhino each morning before breakfast. Call Of The Tiger by Col A N W Powell is an account of the author's numerous hunts for Indian big game including tiger, panther in the Siwalik Hills, goral, bear and panther in the Himalayas and buffalo as well as other game. Pir Ali Muhammad Rashdi - was a a journalist, a newspaper proprietor and a politician, becoming Pakistan's ambassador to China and the Phillipines.

Sindh Ways And Days: Shikar And Other Memories by Pir Ali Muhammad Rashdi The author puts shikar in context in the socio-political fabric of Sindh, detailing information about weapons used and preferred hunting style and also listing information on renowned marksmen.

A geographic and cultural link between India and the Middle East, and the Indian and Persian civilizations, Sindh was home to one of the oldest civilizations in the world. This book provides heady and interesting titbits about Sindh in an age gone by. A fascinating account of hunting in the sub-continent by a contemporary of Jim Corbett. A keen tiger hunter Tiger-Shooting In India by William Rice is an account of hunting experiences on foot in Rajpootana, during the hot seasons from to There is an account of the author saving his colleague, Hugh Elliot, who was seized and dragged by a wounded tigress.

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Rice made a well-placed shot through the top of the animal's skull. It is a book of advice, suggestions and information from the authors own experiences in different parts of India. Cleared For Strange Ports by Kermit Roosevelt is a series of travel accounts by the Roosevelt clan, including a tiger hunting trip by Kermit, as well as his account of hunting in Korea, along the Trans-Siberian railway, as well as bear hunting on Montague Island, Alaska.

Other hunting books by Kermit Roosevelt. Sir William Howard Russell - was a British journalist who became the first 'war correspondent', after he spent 22 months covering the Crimean War. It is beautifully illustrated with numerous engravings by the royal artist Sydney P Hall. George Peress Sanderson - was the officer in charge of the government elephant catching establishment in Mysore and big game hunter. He introduced a new way of catching wild elephants for subsequent taming and training in forestry work. Instead of trapping elephants in pits, he tried to drive herds into fenced, ditched enclosure.

A Sportswoman In India: Your temper, your personal comforts, will all be trodden under foot, and every annoyance must be borne under circumstances which amount sometimes to purgatory. Unless a woman is physically strong, it would be foolhardiness to spend eight weeks under such conditions'. Tigermen Of Anai by Ton Schilling A government official in the old Dutch East Indies Indonesia , Schilling describes his hunts after rogue elephant, tiger and panthers in the jungles of Sumatra and Java. There are several particularly gruesome encounters with crocodiles.

Memoirs Of A Hunter: All his hunting, no matter how big the game, was done with a. Jack Denton Scott - was a prolific and versatile American author of books and magazine articles. He was an experienced big game hunter and in he travelled to India to hunt tiger and buffalo with his wife, Mary Lou Scott. Having hunted in Africa, Mexico, Canada and many other countries, he wrote that he never encountered anything that required as much restraint, patience and strength of character as sitting up all night on an Indian hunting platform stalking tigers and leopards.

The book describes the scenery of this most beautiful area, the game that was hunted, the equipment used, and the Indian hunters, tackers and villagers they met. Edward Humphrey Dalrymple Sewell - was a British first class cricketer, author and jounalist. He was born in Lingsugur, India where his father served as an Army officer. There are four chapters on his life in India, which include hunting bear, tiger, leopard, sambur and other game, and fishing for mahseer at his home on the Kumaon Lakes.

He hunted with a Wilkinson double rifle and was the designer of the classic Wilkinson-Shakespear hunting knife. Wild Sports Of India by Captain Henry Shakespear describes his experiences in hunting a wide range of Indian animals, including man-eaters, panthers, bears, buffalo and wild elephants and goes on to discuss the breeds of horses found in India, and the forming and equipping of irregular cavalry units. The author suggests that better training in horsemanship would have served the British well during the Mutiny.

Good-bye India by Sir Henry Sharp Experiences of a former Indian Educational Commissioner including tiger and small game shooting. He went on to become the Chief Game Warden in Malaya. He was also the Transport Officer for the and Everest Expeditions. The story of an Indian elephant, her early life as a wild elephant and her capture and training as a working elephant in north west Assam. Colonel Frank Sheffield was the commanding officer of 1st Cadet Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and he wrote his book to raise money to fund a permanent headquarters buildings. The story is one of a thrilling encounter with a Royal Bengal tiger, in which Colonel Sheffield was terribly mauled.

How I Killed The Tiger: The appendix contains copies of letters from Winston Churchill, G Manville Fenn, Anthony Hope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and members of the Royal Familiy, to whom presumably complimentary copies were sent, plus various favourable press opinions. Tiger In My Lap by Don V Shuhart is the astonishing tale of Texan, Donald Vincent Shuhart, who followed a wounded tiger into the tall grass and found himself helplessly trapped by the beast, yet he emerged alive, the only man, the Indian hunters told him, to have survived such an experience.

The infuriated Bengal tiger had pinned him down, clawed him and broke his leg. Then the tiger, fully aware that he had the man anchored, sat back to plan his next move. Exhausted and bleeding, Shuhart looked into the tiger's eyes, shuddered and thought "this is a hell of a way to die!

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The Saga Of Encounters In The Wild by Rahul Shukla is a personal account of adventures experienced by Dr Rahul Shukla, scion of a feudal family, where tiger hunting has been handed down from generation to generation. This tradition of big game hunting provided the author with an opportunity to witness at first hand the magnificence of Indian wild life as also the terrible loss it suffered at the hands of hunters and poachers.

This era of ravaging the wild started in the middle of the 19th century up until , when it finally concluded with the blanket ban on shooting. Gordon Sinclair - was a Canadian broadcast journalist. In the late s and s he travelled around the world as a wandering reporter and wrote of his adventures in 4 books including 'Khyber Caravan'.

Recollections of encounters with tigers by an Indian game warden and hunter. But he also organised tiger shoots for many of the Maharaja's famous guests, including the late King George V". Included are methods of stalking, shooting from machans, choice of rifles and even spearing tigers. He considers stalking far more sporting than shooting from a machan or howdah. Pocket Encyclopaedia Of Shikar: Hunting in India during the Raj period with encounters with elephant, tiger, bear, leopard, bison and other large and small game of India. It combines the author's personal experiences with stories related by natives and other British hunters in India.

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Evelyn Arthur Smythies - was a distinguished forester and philatelist, born of British parents in India. His wife, Olive Smythies also wrote several books about their life in India. Big Game Shooting In Nepal: Edward Percy Stebbing - was a British political observer, forester and forest entomologist in India. After service in India, he became a professor at the University of Edinburgh.

During his forty-year career, he led studies into the danger of desertification presented by the encroaching Sahara. Jungle Byways In India: Part I describes sport in the big game jungles of India. Part II describes game protection and the provision of sanctuaries for the preservation of the Indian fauna. An interesting look at the enormous scale of the hunting practices of 80 years ago and the later endeavours to set up protected areas. Stalks In The Himalaya: Jottings Of A Sportsman-Naturalist by Edward Percy Stebbing recounts hunts after goral and hungal, bear in the Tisa valley, serow and tahr in the highlands of Sikkim, and ibex and markhor in Baltistan.

Novice's Luck Or Some Sporting Sprints by Martin Stephens is a real blend of sporting adventures, including the author's hunt for mountain goat, elk and moose in the Canadian Rockies; trout fishing; foxhunting; stalking red stags in the Highlands; riding; and shooting pheasants and waterfowl. Of Asian interest is a chapter on pig sticking near Khanpur in India's United Provinces, and tiger and sambur shooting in the Central Provinces.

Hunting adventures with big game on four continents. Also the author deprecates the coming of luxury safaris where indiscrimate hunting and motor cars were ruining African sport. Tiger And Other Game: He said, "Every officer in the regiment should be able to say he has shot a tiger, panther and a bear.

Learn the ways, the habits and the cunning, not only of big animals, but of the monkeys, vultures, buzzards, falcons, peafowl, jungle fowl, martens, weasels, stoats and even of the insects". Leopards, tigers, bears, monkeys, crocodiles, deer of various kinds, panther, bison and many others. Very cool cover on this PCH book. Woman trapped in spider web while a skull headed spider moves in for the kill. A GD example with off-white to white pages. There is a chunk out at both spine ends. There is a spine roll present. There are staple tears.

The cover is a A VG example with white pages. The staples are a bit rusty and there is minor rust migration present. The cover and centerfold are attached. Chip out top front and back cover. Cover and Centerfold firmly attached. Published by ACG. Edited by Richard E. Cover by Ogden Whitney.