ON THE TRAIL OF THE INDIAN TIGER. By Tobias J. Lanz, Ph.D.

# 2009 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 235mm). Pp332. B/w photographs and illustrations, bibliography. Orange boards, spine titled in black.

# This is an interesting and exciting anthology of pieces on tiger shooting in India between 1788 and 1966. Mainly by British colonial authors. Chapters include; William Blane, Essays on Sporting (1788); Thomas Williamson, Oriental Field Sports (1807); Daniel Johnson, Sketches of Indian Field Sports (1822); Godfrey Mundy, Pen and Pencil Sketches, Being the Journal of a Tour of India (1832); Thomas Bacon, First Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindustan (1837); Edward Napier, Scenes and Sports in Foreign Lands (1840); William Rice, Tiger Shooting in India (1857); Walter Campbell, My Indian Journal (1864); James Forsyth, The Highlands of Central India (1871); Gordon Cumming, Wild Men and Wild Beasts (1871); Arthur Pollock, Sporting Days in Southern India (1894); Alexander Glasfurd, Rifle and Romance in an Indian Jungle (1905); Alfred Watson, King Edward VII as Sportsman (1911); Charles Couldsbury, Tiger Land (1913); Robert Baden-Powell, Memories of India (1915); Nigel Woodyatt, My Sporting Memories (1923); Bernard Ellinson, HRH The Prince of Wales's Sport in India (1925); Arthur Stewart, Tiger and Other Game (1928); James Best, Tiger Days (1931); Reginald Burton, The Tiger Hunters (1936); Jim Corbett, Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1946); James Sleeman, From Rifle to Camera - The Reformation of a Big-Game Hunter (1947); Olive Smythies, Tiger Lady (1953); Kenneth Anderson, Nine Man-Eaters and One Rogue (1954); Kesri Singh, One man and a Thousand tigers (1959); Robert Ruark, Use Enough Gun (1966).