ON THE TRAIL OF THE INDIAN TIGER. By Tobias J. Lanz, Ph.D.

2009 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 235mm). Pp332. B/w photographs and illustrations, bibliography. Orange boards, spine titled in black.

This is an interesting and exciting anthology of pieces on tiger shooting in India between 1788 and 1966. Mainly by British colonial authors. Chapters include; William Blane, Essays on Sporting (1788); Thomas Williamson, Oriental Field Sports (1807); Daniel Johnson, Sketches of Indian Field Sports (1822); Godfrey Mundy, Pen and Pencil Sketches, Being the Journal of a Tour of India (1832); Thomas Bacon, First Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindustan (1837); Edward Napier, Scenes and Sports in Foreign Lands (1840); William Rice, Tiger Shooting in India (1857); Walter Campbell, My Indian Journal (1864); James Forsyth, The Highlands of Central India (1871); Gordon Cumming, Wild Men and Wild Beasts (1871); Arthur Pollock, Sporting Days in Southern India (1894); Alexander Glasfurd, Rifle and Romance in an Indian Jungle (1905); Alfred Watson, King Edward VII as Sportsman (1911); Charles Couldsbury, Tiger Land (1913); Robert Baden-Powell, Memories of India (1915); Nigel Woodyatt, My Sporting Memories (1923); Bernard Ellinson, HRH The Prince of Wales's Sport in India (1925); Arthur Stewart, Tiger and Other Game (1928); James Best, Tiger Days (1931); Reginald Burton, The Tiger Hunters (1936); Jim Corbett, Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1946); James Sleeman, From Rifle to Camera - The Reformation of a Big-Game Hunter (1947); Olive Smythies, Tiger Lady (1953); Kenneth Anderson, Nine Man-Eaters and One Rogue (1954); Kesri Singh, One man and a Thousand tigers (1959); Robert Ruark, Use Enough Gun (1966).