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Ahead Lies the Jungle
by Vaidya, Suresh
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Robert Hale. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Dampstain to rear panel and spine of dust-jacket. Slight dampstain to rear board. Some adhesive tape stains to dust-jacket flaps and endpapers. Small tears and chips to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket spine faded. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 187, [1 (blank)] pages + 16 illustrations on 4 plate leaves. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 135mm. "The trip which is the theme of this book took the author and his companion over thousands of miles of the Indian sub-continent, east, south, west and north, from the jungles of Mysore to those of Madras, Travencore-Cochin, Gir, Assam and Central India. His object was not to seek thrills, but merely to see the wild creatures and how they live, and to study their behaviour towards each other and towards man. This is a book not only for the naturalist, the zoologist, the shikari, the forester, the traveller, but for everyone." - from dust-jacket blurb. Contents: Heart of the Jungle; The Jungle Begins in New York; Half Across India; Of Tigers and Tiger-Shooting; Life at an Elephant Camp; Snakes, Snake-Charming and Taxidermy; Elephant Training and Elephant Notabilities; Wild Elephants of Periyar; Lions in the Gir Forest; The One-Horned Rhinoceros of Kaziranga; World's Best Elephants; Accident at a Bullock Cart Race; The Last Journey. [Reference: Czech, Asian Big Game Hunting Books, page 218 - "Of sporting interest is a chapter on tiger shooting in Madhya Pradesh."] ; 8vo .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23016
- Title
- Ahead Lies the Jungle
- Author
- Vaidya, Suresh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Robert Hale
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1958)
- Keywords
- Zoology India Natural History
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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