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[INDIA-HUNTING] Shooting Diary 1 November 1895 to 3rd February 1896. Bustar Vol. II.

Catalogue: Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson
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[INDIA-HUNTING] Shooting Diary 1 November 1895 to 3rd February 1896. Bustar Vol. II.

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Lot 173
[INDIA-HUNTING] Shooting Diary 1 November 1895 to 3rd February 1896. Bustar Vol. II.
[all present]. Written in an "Army Book 136. Supplied Gratis", so labelled, bound in cream linen. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.5 x 12 cm); 96 pp. manuscript in a neat hand on lined paper. Some wear to covers, somewhat shaken in binding.
Bustar [now Bastar] is a region in Central India, and even today is quite forested. The (unknown and unidentified) author of this hunting diary successfully pursued tiger, sambur, buffalo, panther etc., and recounts his adventures in these pages in substantial detail.


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Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

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