Sunset from the Main

Martin, H. G. (Lieut.-Gen.) ("Al Khanzir")

Verlag: Museum Press (1951), London, 1951

Beschreibung

Previous owner's signature in pencil. Some staining to page edges. Tears and chips to ends of dust-jacket spine and corners of dust-jacket. 85mm tear along front joint of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 288 pages + frontispiece + 29 illustrations on 10 plate leaves. Black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 140mm. India, biography, hunting. Travel includes Ladakh, western Tibet, the Tibetan Plateau. Illustrations include Chortens on the road to Leh; Nomads on their way to summer grazing-grounds; The Tibetan antelope. "Though he belonged to the British Army, General Martin chose to serve for many years in India. Of town life or the intelligentsia, however, he has nothing to tell. His interests lay rather in the countryside, in primitive man and beast. This book is a period piece. The memories he here recalls - sporting memories for the most part, of a Horse and Field Artilleryman in the old India - can never be relived. These memories take shape as a series of charming sketches of the life of forest and mountainside [ . . .]" - from dust-jacket blurb. [Reference: Czech, Asian Big Game Hunting, p. 136 - "the author recalls his hunt after tiger in the Gond of India's Central Provinces, pig-sticking on an island in the Ganges, more tiger in Udaipur, gazelle on the Afghan border, bear in Lahoul, and Ovis vignei in the western Punjab."]. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 22949

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Sunset from the Main

Verlag: Museum Press (1951), London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1951

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good-

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

Auflage: First Edition.