JUNGLES LONG AGO. By Kenneth Anderson.

(1976) 2018 reprint of 2002 Rupa paperback edition. 8vo (139 x 214mm). Ppx,200. Not illustrated.

Reminiscences of adventure and sport in the Indian jungles. Published two years after Anderson's death, this book was put together by editor, Malcolm Barness, after trawling through Anderson's extensive manuscripts and notes. "Kenneth Anderson ...was of the sixth generation of Scotsmen resident in India. They had lived, worked and died there, and had rarely gone away. ...Kenneth himself had only once been to Scotland; he did so because his family thought that perhaps he ought to train for some profession - in fact as a chartered accountant - that would be of use in either land." The attentive reader of Anderson's stories of life in the jungle will quickly guess how long he actually spent training in Edinburgh. Anderson remained in India after independence, highly unusual even among families as firmly and long-established as his. This collection of stories includes the post-independence period. Anderson died in 1974. Chapters include: A night in Spider Valley; The medical lore of India; Occult lore and other matters; Some Indian sanctuaries; The Annabiddhalla Tigress; In a jungle long ago.