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Peter Byrne GENTLEMAN HUNTER: RETRACING JIM CORBETT'S HUNTS FOR THE GREAT MAN-EATING CATS OF INDIA & NEPAL
SAFARI PRESS BOOK
The story of the extraordinary hunting career of the legendary India-domiciled Irishman, Jim Corbett, from the perspective of someone who actually lived his life. Photos; 6x9 inches, 245 pgs.
'This is the story of the extraordinary hunting career of the legendary India-domiciled Irishman, Jim Corbett. You might ask, "Why another book on Corbett'" This book offers something different for the reader. While it retraces Jim Corbett's hunts for the famous man-eating tigers & leopards of India & Nepal, this book is written from the perspective of someone who actually lived Corbett's life.
Gentleman Hunter offers a fresh perspective of the bravery and valor reader with an understanding of the soul & spirit of that intrepid defender of the hill people of northern India & western Nepal. This is Vol. 31 in Safari Press's Classics in Big-Game Hunting Series.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Peter Byrne is an ex-professional big-game hunter who lived & hunted man-eaters in the same areas as Corbett did so many years ago. By actually going to the places where Jim Corbett shot his man-eaters, Byrne offers insights into the man & the hunts, insights that would be beyond the scope of the scope of the average Corbett enthusiast. Illustrated with pictures taken at the sites of Corbett's great hunts in the man-eating tiger country of northern India & western Nepal, the book also includes text & photos from people who hunted with Corbett, including relatives of the victims of the man-eaters.
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70.20 USD
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Peter Byrne HUNTING IN THE MOUNTAINS AND JUNGLES OF NEPAL
SAFARI PRESS 1571573666 / 9781571573667 Hardcover BOOK
'Past readers of Peter Byrne books know about his early hunting days as a tea planter in India and his exploits in Nepal hunting big game. We've also learned of his enthusiasm for the adventures of Jim Corbett. In Hunting in the Mountains and Jungles of Nepal, Byrne's latest oeuvre, he picks from among some of the seventy-two shikars he conducted in the 50s and 60s for tigers and other Nepalese game to bring us what he considers his most memorable hunts.
Most tiger hunts were conducted via elephant back, from a machan, or by beaters pushing the quarry, but Byrne feels that the tiger hunts conducted on foot were by far the most memorable . . . for a good reason. They are extremely dangerous. He found that only very few clients dared to go after a tiger on foot. We read about the three most exciting tiger hunts Byrne ever conducted on foot, which includes the time he guided internationally famous big-game hunter James Mellon for his big cat.
Of course, not all clients were brave, and we learn of what can and did go wrong for Byrne. Besides the cowards who would not enter the tall grass even on the back of an elephant, there were the fools who got lost. There was even one intellectually challenged individual who in the heat of the moment loaded a Tootsie Roll into his bolt action instead of a bullet.
Peter did his own hunting as well as guiding, and once he and a colleague tried to run down a leopard with dogs. Everything seemed to be going well until they ran into a tiger, and the tables turned on them. The mighty hunters became the tiger's prey. These true tales from the jungles and hill country of India and Nepal are really quite chilling.
Byrne also retells the interesting story of how Robert Ruark was not hoodwinked by a crooked Indian outfitter who had placed a frozen leopard in a tree for his client to shoot. Ruark had to flee India in a hurry afterward, but we'll leave it up to you to read the story to find out what happened. At a fancy party in Bel Air, California, Peter confronts the truth about the biggest tiger ever: a thirteen-foot monster.
Finally, he tells us about a client who brought along African PH Tony Archer and even a Wakamba tracker from Kenya to help with the hunt. If all this is not enough excitement, Byrne concludes with two additional hunts with James Mellon for water buffaloes in Assam and a high Himalayan hunt for a goral and serow.
Tiger hunting is gone, and books on tiger hunting are now rarely published. Strangely enough, we feel this is one of the best on the subject . . . and it may very well be the last.
Ltd. of 1,000 numbered, signed, & slipcased copies.
This is volume 39 in Safari Press's Classics in Big Game Hunting Series.
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70.20 USD
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