TWENTY-FIVE YEARS BIG GAME HUNTING. By Brigadier General R. Pigot. With sixty-four illustrations.

1928 1st edition. Tall 8vo (158 x 258mm). Ppxi,307. B/w photograph plates. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt.

Twenty-five years reminiscences of sport and travel across five continents. The author was a British Army and Royal Air Force officer who served in both World Wars. "This is an excellent work of sporting adventure in many exotic venues." (Czech). Chapters include:- Big game hunting and big game shooting; Transport, clothing and camp kit; Rifles; Taxidermy; Elk shooting in Norway; Sardinia; Suakim; Jungle shooting in India; Hill shooting in India; Burma; The Altai Mountains of Mongolia; Siam; Eastern Siberia; Newfoundland; The Tian Shan Mountains of Chinese Turkestan; The Tarim River; The Pamirs; New Zealand.