2008 1st edition. Safari Press. Long Beach, California. Ppxiv,242. B/w photographs & illustrations, maps, bibliography. Brick red boards. Fine in dust-wrapper.
Notes: "Sportsmen in old Russia, 1870 - 1935." This is an anthology of pieces by sportsmen of various nationalities about their expeditions to various parts of czarist Russia. This enormous area ranged from the then Baltic provinces and the Grand Duchy of Finland to Central Asia and to Kamchatka. Chapters include; big game shooting in the Russian Empire; walrus in the Arctic; polar bear in the Barents Sea; moose near Lake Ladoga; brown bear in Russian Lapland; flagging bears near St. Petersburg (flagging wolves is also described in Arseniev's book Dersu The Trapper); lynx in the Vitebsk forest; a wolf battue (i.e., driven wolf shooting, not as many high shots as with pheasants); Lithuania's bison forest; aurochs in the Caucasus (European Bison, not the extinct aurochs); bear shooting in Svanetia; chamois and tur in the Kouban; ibex in the Araxes Valley; red stags in the Caucasus; antelope in the Crimea; wild boar and wolves in Khirgizstan; roe deer by sledge; Siberian tiger by Lake Balkhash; Amur tiger; Ovis ammon on the Altai; wild sheep and ibex in Siberia; wild sheep in the Pamirs; Marco Polo sheep; bears and shipwrecks on the Kamchatka coast; a boy's hunt for snow sheep in Kamchatka; Unusually good on European bison and a great read to whet the appetite for wider reading. We can recommend Dersu the Trapper, (our stock no.3626), as well as Memoirs of a Hunter, and The Last Wolf Hawker by Friedrich Remmler (22368 & 16835) which expand on wolf coursing and hunting as well as lynx, bears and hawking wolves
