Shikar in the Days Gone by

Shikar in the Days Gone by PDF Author: Gohar Ayub Khan
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ISBN: 9789694963419
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Shikar in the Days Gone by

Shikar in the Days Gone by PDF Author: Gohar Ayub Khan
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ISBN: 9789694963419
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Shikar

Shikar PDF Author: Jack Warner
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765303434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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"Shikar" pits Grady Brickhouse, sheriff of Hartesville, Georgia, against a fearsome opponent--a full-grown Bengal tiger that has somehow found its way to his jurisdiction.

The Roar of the Tiger

The Roar of the Tiger PDF Author: PKS
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1637147651
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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This is a compilation of hunting tales from the jungles of India from the centuries gone by. “…We have no word in English that properly embraces all this, but all are expressed by the Persian word ‘shikar!’…” “…Sitting on the ground in a thorn “Boma” for a lion in Africa is considered an ordinary enough thing to do; but sitting on the ground for a tiger in dense jungles of the Indian subcontinent can be an entirely different experience. The risk inherent should be obvious to all. Sitting on a machan built on a tree was the more common approach employed by Tiger hunters of yore; but of course, there were exceptions...” “…In another moment the old Panther sprang out of the jungle, made a pat at the kid, and then crouched by its side. If there had been more space, I should have waited and watched the Panther’s proceedings, but as I was afraid that she would drag the goat into the jungle, I fired at once, and immediately jumped up so as to see above the smoke. The Panther sprang into the air, fell backwards, and then disappeared among the bushes…” “…I was standing at the junction of two pathways, and the beat had approached to within a hundred yards, when I heard “Woof! Woof!” I imagined the beaters had started up a big wild boar. The “woofing” was repeated during the next minute, coming closer each time, until finally there was a resounding “Woof” in the tall grass about fifteen yards in front of me. By this time I was standing on tip-toe, trying to peer into the grass ahead of me, when suddenly I realized that what I was staring at behind an ant-heap was the tail-end of a tiger…” The stories in this collection are extracted from rare works from the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries.

Memoir of Louise Lawrence

Memoir of Louise Lawrence PDF Author: Louise Lawrence
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Jungle Odyssey (A Soldiers Memoirs)

Jungle Odyssey (A Soldiers Memoirs) PDF Author:
Publisher: KW Publishers Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9385714775
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Life in India has changed beyond recognition in the last seventy years, and I am making an effort at preserving the memory of a lost past for my grandchildren and their yet to come progeny, to relive some of the jungle stories and memories. JUNGLE SALT “You can take a man out of the Jungle, but if he is born to it – you cannot take the Jungle out of a man”. Anon Jungle Odyssey is a soldier’s ‘Shikar’ biography. Glimpses of experiences with his father the ‘Deva-Pitta’ of these stories perhaps are the defining events that qualify him as a “Jungle Salt”. Soldering closely enabled him to retain his lifelong interest in Wildlife – the fauna – flora of our vast subcontinental size country. It has been a fulsome life that exposed him to the Jungle lore and the beauty of its jungle and wildlife.

The English Catalogue of Books

The English Catalogue of Books PDF Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1900

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Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Gone Are the Days

Gone Are the Days PDF Author: Peter Byrne
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 157157476X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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Peter Byrne has led the life most of us can only dream about. After WW II he returned to Ireland, but being restless, he decided to find a job that would take him to exotic lands. Using his family's connections, he was hired as a manager on a huge Indian tea plantation in the Himalayan foothills--a posh job that came with 17 servants and a mansion. Almost immediately on arrival he was plunged into Indian jungle hunting, his primary love, when the local villagers turned to him with a plea to eliminate a rogue boar. Read his exciting description of how he jumped from a tree and sliced the boar's skull in two while half the adult males of the village stayed in the trees to watch and cheer him on. Share his many adventures in India with tiger, elephant, and leopard, and see how a fortuitous championing of a member of the ruling elite of Nepal during a bar brawl prompted Peter to move to Nepal and become a professional hunter there. Move with him to Nepal where he was, for years, the only authorized professional hunter to operate in that country. In the unspoiled wilderness of the White Grass Plains area of Nepal, where there were virtually no roads and the natives did not even know the name of the capital of the country, he hunted tiger right up till the close of tiger hunting in 1969. Follow his exploits in the Terai (forested southlands of Nepal) where he encountered a man-eater . . . that was eventually killed by a train! This is the true-life story about a time that now is completely gone--a time when virtually no cars were seen in the remote areas of India and Nepal, a time when tiger, gaur, leopard, sambar, and many other jungle denizens were plentiful beyond description. Those days are truly gone. Foreword by Charlton Heston.

Call Back

Call Back PDF Author: C.P. Tewari
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1648996221
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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In an Army officer’s life, retirement and death are preordained. Date of death is unknown but the date of one’s retirement is known and generally, the planning for the retirement starts in the last few years of the service. I have endeavored to pen down a few interesting incidents during my service life. Some are of just humorous value, some throw up a moral and some may indicate a lesson to be learned for the future.

Days of the Raj

Days of the Raj PDF Author: Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 014310280X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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British India generated the largest imperial archive in the world. From the stacks of administrative reports, minutes, instruction manuals, memoirs, letters, reports, cook-books and travelogues the British left behind,

My Service Days

My Service Days PDF Author: Sir Norman Robert Stewart (2d bart.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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