EXCURSIONS, ADVENTURES, AND FIELD-SPORTS IN CEYLON: ITS COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY IMPORTANCE AND NUMEROUS ADVANTAGES TO THE BRITISH EMIGRANT. Volumes I and II. By Lieut.-Colonel James Campbell.

(1843) 2006 facsimile reprint. Two volumes. 8vo (145 x 224mm). Ppiv,xii,421;iv,viii,512. Fold-out colour illustrations, b/w illustrations, fold-out maps. Full dark green pictorial bonded leather.

A detailed account of life in Ceylon in the early part of the nineteenth century, including the voyage out. History, politics, agriculture, the local inhabitants, Europeans in Ceylon, hunting, shooting, fishing, lots on elephants, buffaloes, tigers. Many appendices giving economic statistics for the colony. The author's account covers the period from just before 1820 to just before 1840. Two-volume set. This is a facsimile reprint of the edition originally published in 1843 by T. and W. Boone, London.