TIGER DAYS. By The Hon. James W. Best, O.B.E., Late India Forest Service.

1931 1st edition. Small 8vo (135 x 204mm). Ppxiv,226. B/w photograph plates, line drawing vignettes. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt.

"I have been encouraged to write this book by friends who read Indian Shikar Notes and asked for a further instalment, which, like its predecessor, must be given to print as an account of my own mistakes and lessons in tiger hunting, and must not be looked upon as an attempt to contribute to present-day publications of a high literary standard. As an Officer in the Indian forestry Service I had more opportunities of studying the ways of tigers than falls to the lot of most people who go to India; and in my work and play I made many friends amongst the aboriginal forest tribes. In the following pages I have tried to give an account of some of my experiences with them". Best tells his story rather as if it were a novel, but this is merely his answer to the usual problem of compressing numerous disconnected incidents of several years into a readable narrative". The 'Four-Letter Man," of course, never existed. But I felt compelled to include a bad man in the book, and I thought that the broad shoulders of Simla could bear the burden best". (You'll have to read the book). An interesting read which describes both the life of a Forest Officer and that of the peoples and society of central India.