Description: SHIKAR: BEING TALES TOLD BY A SPORTSMAN IN INDIA by C.H. STOCKLEY. 1928. 1st. ed. The Oxford University Press. Bombay. 192 pp. Green HB in good condition. Gilt writing on faded spine. pages tanning, some spotting. overall tight copy The first edition of the work. Collated complete with twenty four monochrome plates. Uncommon. Charles Hugh Stockley was an officer in the British army and a renowned big game hunter and photographer. He wrote profusely on the subject, writing many books detailing his hunts, particularly across India. India Big Game Hunting. This particular work details Stockley's time hunting markhor, gooral, tahr, sambur, tsine, ibex, stag, bear, burhel and other game in northern India, with a chapter on hunting kudu in Somaliland in Africa.
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Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Great Britiain
Language: English
Author: C.H. Stockley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Topic: Big Game Hunting, Asia
Subject: Outdoor & Nature
Year Printed: 1928
Original/Facsimile: Original