THE OLD FOREST RANGER: OR, WILD SPORTS OF INDIA ON THE NEILGHERRY HILLS, IN THE JUNGLES, AND ON THE PLAINS. By Major Walter Campbell, of Skipness, Late of the Seventh Royal Fusileers. Fourth Edition.

THE OLD FOREST RANGER: OR, WILD SPORTS OF INDIA ON THE NEILGHERRY HILLS, IN THE JUNGLES, AND ON THE PLAINS. By Major Walter Campbell, of Skipness, Late of the Seventh Royal Fusileers. Fourth Edition.

THE OLD FOREST RANGER: OR, WILD SPORTS OF INDIA ON THE NEILGHERRY HILLS, IN THE JUNGLES, AND ON THE PLAINS. By Major Walter Campbell. Edited by Frank Forester.

THE OLD FOREST RANGER: OR, WILD SPORTS OF INDIA ON THE NEILGHERRY HILLS, IN THE JUNGLES, AND ON THE PLAINS. By Major Walter Campbell. Edited by Frank Forester.

THE OLD FOREST RANGER: OR, WILD SPORTS OF INDIA ON THE NEILGHERRY HILLS, IN THE JUNGLES, AND ON THE PLAINS. By Major Walter Campbell, of Skipness, Late of the Seventh Royal Fusileers. Third Edition.

(1840) 1853 3rd edition. 8vo (140 x 210mm). Ppxvi,359 + 16pp publisher's catalogue. B/w plates and chapter heading vignettes. Cloth, gilt hunting scene to upper board, spine titled and decorated in gilt.

" My object in writing the following pages was to present my readers with a faithful sketch of some of the more exciting field sports of India; and to ensure my doing so, I have confined myself almost exclusively to the description of such scenes and adventures as either my brother, or I, or both of us - for we hunted in couples occasionally - have witnessed. ...My characters are purely fictitious, and are merely introduced, like the subordinate performers in Van Amburg's exhibitions, to serve as foils to the wild beasts, and to avoid the repetition of that eternal egotistical I, which is so disagreeable in a personal narrative". (From the author's preface to the first edition). "...the fictionalised experiences of Campbell while hunting in the region of the Neilgherry Hills. The dialogue is a bit much for modern readers to wade through, but the chapters on hunting wild boar, bear, bison, sambur and tiger are quite well done. An interesting, early Victorian-era sporting work that captures the flavor and excitement of the hunt". (Czech).
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Author Campbell (Walter).
Book Code 43302
ISBN No ISBN.
Book Description Cloth torn and frayed at spine, abrasion to end-paper, bookplate on front paste-down. Good only.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1853
Publisher Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co.
Place London.