THE WILDEST SPORT OF ALL. By Prakash Singh.

2015 1st edition. 8vo paperback (139 x 214mm). Ppx,197. B/w photograph plates, 3 colour illustrations.

"Before tiger hunting was officially banned in the 1970s, the great jungles of India swarmed with shikaris indulging in what was once considere a popular 'sport'". This book " offers a first-hand account of the sport of tiger hunting in India. Narrated in the voice of an expert shikari, it takes the reader on an adventurous journey through the forests of the Kumaon and Garhwal mountains in northern India." Chapters include: Excape from a wounded tiger; Another encounter with a wounded tiger; Three unsolved mysteries about tigers; The death of a foolhardy shikari; A cunning tiger; The tale of a man-eater; A battle with a man-eater; A battle of wits with a tiger; A tiger on 'call'; A tiger beat in grassland jungles; An unusually aggressive tiger; Cattle-lifters at large in Dabaora; The park tiger; The black and yellow cat in Dhakion; The milk of the tigress; Conclusion.