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[INDIA-HUNTING] MALET, RAWDEN. When the Red Gods Call. Being the biography of a shikari in the making.

Catalogue: Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson
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[INDIA-HUNTING] MALET, RAWDEN. When the Red Gods Call. Being the biography of a shikari in the making.

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Lot 189
[INDIA-HUNTING] MALET, RAWDEN. When the Red Gods Call. Being the biography of a shikari in the making.
London: H. F. & G. Witherby, (1934). First edition. Publisher's red-orange cloth in dust jacket. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (21.5 x 14 cm); [viii], 255, [1] pp.; illustrations after photographs. Spine of jacket faded, generally a very good copy, scarce in jacket.
"In this somewhat different turn in sporting books, Malet recounts the shooting experiences of James Carmody Collingson who traveled to Baltistan, Tibet, Ladakh and other locales in search of wild game. A trophy ibex was collected, with additional successful hunts after gazelle, shapoo, burhel and other game. Descending into India's Central Provinces, Collingson bagged tiger, sambur and bear." Czech Asia p. 133.


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Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

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