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[INDIA-HUNTING] CAMPBELL, WALTER (Colonel). My Indian Journal.
Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1864. First edition, a presentation copy "in remembrance of the author" dated 1885 (verso of front free endpaper). Publisher's wine pebbled cloth, the upper cover with a bison skull in gilt. 8 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches (21.5 x 14 cm); xix, [i], 484 pp.; colored map on title, lithographed frontispiece and six plates. Some wear to extremities, hinges a little cracked at the endpapers, generally a very sound copy .
An important early Indian big game hunting title. "Campbell ... lets his readers know that this book is based on his journal notes collected on numerous travel and shooting trips In India. As a seventeen-year old, he joined the army, became a lieutenant and was immediately ordered to the subcontinent. Settling into the Dharwar area, he hunted tiger, antelope, and panther, with bison and sambhur shooting near the Black River. He also describes beats for tiger, hunting them from elephant back and from horseback (the latter with a spear), and bagging the big felines in Wynaad. There are additional hunts after gaur, blackbuck, and bear. Near Bangalore he took part in several pig sticking expeditions. In his beloved Neilglierry Hills, he hunted ibex and bear. Military adventures round out his account." Czech Asia p. 42.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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