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Sport & Country: The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News: Holly Leaves, the Christmas Number, November 11, 1955, Vol. 200, No. 3910A

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ingram House: 1955

Seller ID: 2298819

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers intact. Quarter inch tear to top edge of front wrapper and to bottom edge of rear wrapper, ink name on first page, general wear. 1955 Stapled Binding. Color illustrations and black-and-white photographs. Articles and photographs include Beckoning Signs; Nature's Climatic Jokes, Illustrated by J. E. Tickner; The Qualities of Charm, by P. Stephens; The Royal Scots Greys, by Major P. Pereira; A Tour of Hadrian's Wall; Newcastle and the Royal Shows, by Sydney Moorhouse; A King's Travels by Gwyneth Pennethorne; Animal Innocence; Beyond the Wall, by Hamish MacAlistair; Silhouettes, Cut by H...
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Modern Mechanix and Inventions, April 1935, Volume XIII, Number 6

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Modern Mechanix: 1935

Seller ID: 2204987

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

One inch tear to spine head, ink name, pages toned. 1935 Stapled Binding. 154 pp. CONTENTS: Building Stratosphere Air-Liners, by Allan Lockheed; Knock Down Monuments with Feathers, by Nic Sprank in Oddities of Science; American Railroads Challenge Speed Records; Racing Time for News Scoops, by Robert L. Frey; How I Judge Championship Fights, by General J.V. Clinnin; Get Cash for Puzzle Solutions - Furniture Contest Winners Get $125.00; Electrical City Built Without Chimneys, by Grace Kirkpatrick; How to Stain Your Microscope Slides, by Julian D. Corrington; Clipping Dollars from Auto Running E...
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Biko: The Only Thing on the Market That Will Make a Permant Repair Reliable and Safe

By: N/A

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hubbardston, Mass., Biko Mfg, Co.: 1898

Seller ID: 2305295

Binding: Small Softcover

Condition: Good

Leather heavily rubbed. 1898 Small Softcover. Unpaginated. Leather wrappers. Contents include: yearly calendar for 1898; care of horses; learning to ride a bicycle; large cities of the United States, population exceeding 10,000, census of 1890; explanation of flag signals for weather and storms; graph paper, rate of income on stocks; interest laws of all the states; rules for computing interest; rates of postage; weights and measures; help in case of accidents; antidotes for poison; and more.
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The 1965 Princeton Ice Carnival, Baker Memorial Rink, March 12 and 13

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Princeton Skating Club, Inc.: 1965

Seller ID: 2277957

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

A few faint spots on front wrapper, faint stain to top and bottom edge. 1965 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. The 1965 Princeton Ice Carnival, Baker Memorial Rink, March 12 and 13. Includes the production, the program, cast of characters, local ads, and names and black-and-white photographs of the skaters.
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Major League Baseball: Technique and Tactics

By: Allen, Ethan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The MacMillan Company: 1947

Seller ID: 2261622

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Two one-inch tears along top edge of jacket, faint crease along bottom edge of jacket front, front jacket flap clipped. 1947 Hard Cover. xix, 253 pp. Illustrated with 232 black-and-white pictures. CONTENTS: Part I. Defensive Baseball: General Fundamentals, The Pitcher, The Catcher, General Defense for Infielders and Outfielders, General Infield Defense, The First Baseman, General Defense for the Second Baseman and Shortstop, The Second Baseman, The Shortstop, The Third Baseman, The Outfielder; Part II. Offensive Baseball: Batting, Bunting, Base Running, Sliding, Coaching; Part III. Management:...
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Tom Hunter: Sophomore Halfback

By: Anderson, Ken

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House: 1945

Seller ID: 2299780

ISBN: 9789990001006

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Second printing. Jacket edges rubbed with a couple minor tears. 1945 Hard Cover. 86 pp. Here's what Lanky Bates said about the new coach at Dodge City High School: He's worse than Simon Legree--that guy. But Coach Southern won the admiration and loyalty of his team and led them to victory--real victory--for he had found Christ as his Saviour, and he not only showed his team how to play ball but told them how Christ defeated sin and makes us victors through Him if we will make Him our Captain.
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Foot Notes: A Complete Guide for the Care of Your Feet. With Special Sections for Runners and Dancers.

By: Arnot, Michelle; Crane Jack; Levine, Suzanne M.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Dolphin Book / Doubleday: 1980

Seller ID: 2204654

ISBN: 0385149441

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1980 Trade Paperback. xxiv, 164 pp. Corn? Bunion? Athlete's Foot? Ingrown toenail? ...Foot Notes is the practical guide that will help make your feet healthy, strong, and pain-free. Including special sections for: ATHLETES: What joggers can do about shin splints, achilles tendinitis; how to compensate for weak arches; DANCERS: How you can keep that fancy footwork going and treat or prevent common injuries; PARENTS: Explaining what to watch out for in the development of your children's feet. This comprehensive sourcebook tells you what shoes are best for you to wear and how they should fit, how...
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Dersu the Trapper (Recovered Classics)

By: Arseniev, V. K.; Burr, Malcolm; Gordon, Jaimy

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, McPherson & Company: 1996

Seller ID: 2304323

ISBN: 0929701496

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Spine lightly creased. 1996 Trade Paperback. ix, 351 pp. Vladimir Klavdievich Arseniev (1872-1930) undertook twelve major scientific expeditions between 1902 and 1930 in the Siberian Far East, and authored some sixty works from the geographical, geological, botanical, and ethnographic data he amassed. Among these, Dersu the Trapper has earned a privileged place in Russian literature. In this Russian counterpart to The Journals of Lewis and Clark and the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Arseniev combines the precise observations of a naturalist with an exciting narrative of real-life adventure....
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Eben Holden's Last Day A-Fishing

By: Bacheller, Irving

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1907

Seller ID: 2202227

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, ink name to front endpaper, pages toned. 1907 Small Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 60 pp. Excerpt from Eben Holden's Last Day A-Fishing 'Always, when our train went roaring into the quiet village, we used to look out of the car-window down across the river and a smooth stretch of fields into the edge of the little town. At a small, familiar opening in the shade trees, almost half a mile from the train, we never failed to see the ?icker of a white handkerchief. It signaled their welcome. And then - well, I doubt if any one may have in this w...
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Bad Henry

By: Baldwin, Stan; Jenkins, Jerry; Aaron, Hank

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Chilton Book Company: 1974

Seller ID: 2302780

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket spine head bumped, a few small tears to jacket edges, front jacket flap price-clipped. 1974 Hard Cover. 205 pp. A biography of Hank Aaron. Henry Louis Aaron (born February 5, 1934), nicknamed Hammer or Hammerin' Hank, is a retired American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder who serves as the senior vice president of the Atlanta Braves. He played 21 seasons for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves in the National League (NL) and two seasons for the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League (AL), from 1954 through 1976. Aaron held the MLB record for career home runs for 33 years, and he sti...
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The Anatomy & Development of the Sports Prototype Racing Car

By: Bamsey, Ian

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Motorbooks International: 1991

Seller ID: 2200667

ISBN: 0879385863

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Minor wear to jacket corners, sticker ghost on rear jacket corner. 1991 Hard Cover. 218 pp. 8vo. Bamsey has tackled this subject with clarity and expertise to reveal fully the technical development of today's World Sports Car Championship contenders. Historical introduction to revolutionary technology design to achieve undreamed-of maximum speeds. New possibilities for increased aerodynamic performance are described and analysed in detail. AND in-depth study of WSCC structural technology and concludes with an introduction to the 3.5 ATMO regulations.
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Weatherby's Inning: A Story of College Life and Baseball

By: Barbour, Ralph H. [Henry]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1903

Seller ID: 2289151

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. No jacket. Board edges lightly rubbed, rear hinge starting, ink gift note on front endpaper, one inch tear along edge of fourth plate. 1903 Hard Cover. vii, 249 pp. Color frontispiece and 5 color plates by C.M. Relyea. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ralph Henry Barbour (November 13, 1870 – February 19, 1944) was an American novelist, who primarily wrote popular works of sports fiction for boys. In collaboration with L. H. Bickford, he also wrote as Richard Stillman Powell, notably Phyllis in Bohemia. Other works included light romances and adventure.
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For Yardley: A Story of Track and Field

By: Barbour, Ralph Henry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1911

Seller ID: 2289150

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No jacket. A few faint spots on rear board, pencil name on front paste-down endpaper, ink stamp on front endpaper. 1911 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 297 pp. Color frontispiece and 3 color plates. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ralph Henry Barbour (November 13, 1870 – February 19, 1944) was an American novelist, who primarily wrote popular works of sports fiction for boys. In collaboration with L. H. Bickford, he also wrote as Richard Stillman Powell, notably Phyllis in Bohemia. Other works included light romances and adventure.
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Double Play: A Story of School and Baseball

By: Barbour, Ralph Henry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1910

Seller ID: 2186583

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Bottom right front corner of cover stained, front paste-down endpaper torn away from binding, rear hinge loose. 1910 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 315 pp. A story of boarding school and baseball.
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Who's Who in Baseball: Complete Star Players' Records from Their First Day in Professional Baseball

By: Baseball Magazine Company

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Baseball Magazine Company: 1930

Seller ID: 2207833

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Fifteenth edition. Lightly toned, minor wear to corners. 1930 Stapled Binding. 94 pp. Printed wrappers, stapled binding. An early guide to the playing statistics of star baseball players, including their age, height, weight, birthplace, full name, first game, first club, number of games played, positions played, career batting average, trades, drafts, and sales. It also mentions unique events of the 1929 season, and provides World's Series records and complete pitchers' records. Among the prominent players mentioned are: George Herman ('Babe') Ruth, Jr.; Henry Louis ('Lou') Gehrig; and Rogers ...
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A Thousand Deer: Four Generations of Hunting and the Hill Country

By: Bass, Rick

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University of Texas Press: 2013

Seller ID: 2279908

ISBN: 0292756283

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

1st printing. Award ceremony program laid in. An exceptional copy. 2013 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. In November, countless families across Texas head out for the annual deer hunt, a ritual that spans generations, ethnicities, socioeconomics, and gender as perhaps no other cultural experience in the state. Rick Bass's family has returned to the same hardscrabble piece of land in the Hill Country—the Deer Pasture—for more than seventy-five years. In A Thousand Deer, Bass walks the Deer Pasture again in memory and stories, tallying up what hunting there has ...
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The Concealed Handgun Manual: How to Choose, Carry, and Shoot a Gun in Self Defense

By: Bird, Chris

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Privateer Publishers: 2002

Seller ID: 2281543

ISBN: 0965678423

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Third edition. Light edge wear. 2002 Trade Paperback. Timely because more states continue to pass concealed-carry legislation, this comprehensive handbook contains information on current state regulations, beginning and advanced shooting instruction, and updated safety advice. This guide covers everything needed to understand these subjects and offers tips on the importance of self-protection, selecting and buying a handgun, and methods of concealing weapons. In light of the current problem of violence in schools, this edition also offers detailed instruction on how to avoid all violent encoun...
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The Little Book of Coaching: Motivating People to Be Winners

By: Blanchard, Ken; Shula, Don

Price: $30.00

Publisher: HarperBusiness: 2001

Seller ID: 2287862

ISBN: 0066621038

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author (Don Shula). Sticker adhesive on rear jacket panel. 2001 Small Hard Cover. 117 pp. Are the people who report to you giving you their best? Is each individual on your team performing to his or her fullest potential? For more than thirty years, renowned business consultant and bestselling author Ken Blanchard and legendary NFL coach Don Shula have motivated teams to peak performances. In their classic, authoritative work on coaching, Everyone's a Coach, they distilled their rich collective experience down to its key elements and shared their secrets for inspiring ...
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Hawking or Faulconry [Falconry]

By: Blome, Richard

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Thames Valley Press: 1971

Seller ID: 2288971

ISBN: 0900294043

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A very nice copy. 1971 Hard Cover. xxxii, 123 pp. Modern facsimile of 1929 edition. Includes fold-out engraving. Falconers will welcome the reappearance of this scarce treatise on seventeenth-century hawking.
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Erie Canal Bicyclist and Hiker Route Guide

By: Botzman, Harvey

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cyclotour Guide Books: 1996

Seller ID: 2293106

ISBN: 1889602094

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Former library copy, usual marks. Light stain to spine base. 1996 Trade Paperback. 199, [1] pp. A descriptive tour guide of the Erie Canal for cyclists and hikers. The Erie Canal was an engineering marvel both in its day during the 19th century and now at the preface tot he 21st century. The original locks were made of stone blocks solidified together with mud. No the mud of the earth bu the mud of masons, cement. This was not the relatively high tech portland cement which we have today but a more rudimentary mortar. It has kept the locks together for over 150 years. The Route Guide includes s...
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High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places

By: Breashears, David; Krakauer, Jon

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1999

Seller ID: 2269164

ISBN: 0684853612

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

319 pp. Foreword by John Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air. "An IMAX cinematographer and mountaineer describes his participation in an expedition to Everest during the deadly 1996 season, detailing the creation of his IMAX film Everest and the dramatic impact on his life of his experiences in the face of disaster."
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Sportsmen's Encyclopedia

By: Bruette, William A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Forest and Stream Publishing Co.: 1923

Seller ID: 2203179

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Previous owner's name (Addison P. Wilbur) stamped in gilt on front board. Minor loss from spine foot, page ridge lightly foxed. 1923 Hard Cover. 105, 41, 23, 71, 56, 23 pp. A collection of writings on sporting, compiled by the editor of Forest and Stream, a periodical focusing on outdoorsmanship. Forest and Stream was first printed in 1873 and continued publication through 1930, featuring writings by Nessmuk (George W. Sears) popularizing canoeing, advocating for conservation, and contributing to the foundation of the National Audubon Society and the national park system. Includ...
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Fresh and Salt Water Spinning (The Barnes Sports Library)

By: Burns, Eugene

Price: $12.00

Publisher: A. S. Barnes and Company: 1952

Seller ID: 2294920

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Small chips to jacket spine head and jacket spine base, jacket edges rubbed, front jacket flap price-clipped with price intact. 1952 Large Hardcover. 96 pp. Photographs by Clyde Childress. ...the book explains the sport of spinning and tells why spinning with fine tackle produces bigger fish. CONTENTS: Part I. Equipment--Spinning Reels, Spinning Rods, Spinning Lines, Productive Lures; Part II. Technique--How to Cast, Retrieve, Spin on a Stream, Spin on a Lake, Spin in Salt Water, Spin with a Bubble, Tie the Strongest Knots for Spinning; Part III. Fishing Trophy Fish; Part IV. How to Build a Sp...
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The Life and Adventures of Nat Foster, Trapper and Hunter

By: Byron-Curtiss, Arthur Lester

Price: $8.00

Publisher: U.S., 2018

Seller ID: 2304322

ISBN: 1530180090

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Modern reprint of 1912 original. A very nice copy. 2018 Trade Paperback. Unpaginated. To use the author's own words, it is a faithful account of the life and adventures of a character familiar to sportsmen and others who frequent the Adirondacks. The book is well written, is full of thrilling incidents of frontier life in which this noted trapper and hunter played a remarkable part, and bears out the general assumption that Foster is the hero of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. This book is not a novel, but a true history of the noted perrson whose name is given above; and although it is not a ...
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Death in the Long Grass

By: Capstick, Peter Hathaway

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press / The Buckingham Mint: 1977

Seller ID: 2304430

ISBN: 0312186134

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, #681 of 5000 copies, hand-numbered and signed by author on limitation page. An exceptional copy. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 297 pp. Maroon full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Black-and-white photographs throughout text. Few men can say they have known Africa as Peter Hathaway Capstick has know it -- leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And...
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Death in the Dark Continent

By: Capstick, Peter Hathaway

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press / The Buckingham Mint: 1983

Seller ID: 2304431

ISBN: 0312186150

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, #681 of 5000 copies, hand-numbered and signed by author on limitation page. An exceptional copy. 1983 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [3], 238 pp. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Black-and-white photographs throughout text. Critically acclaimed as a master of adventure writing for Death in the Long Grass and Death in the Silent Places, former professional hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick takes us back to Africa to encounter the world’s most dangerous big-game animals....
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If They Only Knew

By: Chyna

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper Collins: 2001

Seller ID: 2301298

ISBN: 0060393297

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Faint edge wear. 2001 Hard Cover. Part feminist, part superhero, Chyna has blazed a trail where no woman had gone before. She has gained the respect of the men inside the World Wrestling Federation, and the world at large. She was the first woman to wear the Intercontinental Championship belt, yet these were not her most significant battles.
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Observations on Fox-Hunting

By: Colonel Cook; Wolstenholme, Alken and Others; de Broke, Lord Willoughby

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Edward Arnold and Co.: 1922

Seller ID: 2206358

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First thus, adding color plates to the first work published in 1826. Spine slightly cocked, light scratches to rear board, ink stamp and ink name. 1922 Hard Cover. xv, 144 pp. The work that is now placed in our hands is but little known to the present generation, though a modern Master of Foxhounds would do well to follow every word of advice it contains. The author himself was M.F.H. and carried the horn at the beginning of the last century. A study of his remarkably sound treatise on Foxhunting leaves us with the reflection that the essentials of the sport have changed but slightly since the...
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The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains - The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain

By: Cook, John R.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Crane & Company: 1907

Seller ID: 2187942

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Top edge of rear board faintly stained, bottom corner lightly bumped causing 1/2 inch tear to cloth revealing board beneath. 1907 Hard Cover. xii, 351 pp. 8vo. Howes C730. A firsthand account of life on the American plains, specifically treating conflict with Native Americans ('Kiowas, Comanches, and Staked Plains Apaches') in Missouri and Kansas, and the rampant hunting of buffalo which led to their near-extinction. The first chapter also deals with the author's youth in Kansas, and provides his memories of time served as a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War, and com...
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Man-Eaters of Kumaon

By: Corbett, Jim; Hallett, Maurice; Lord Linlithgow

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1946

Seller ID: 2265407

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

6th printing. Lacks jacket. Boards lightly soiled, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1946 Hard Cover. xix, 235 pp. 8vo. Introduction by Sir Maurice Hallett, preface by Lord Linlithgow. Black-and-white photographs, map of man-eater territory in the Kumaon Division of the United Provinces on endpapers. Jim Corbett's own story of his experiences with the man-eating tigers of Kumaon. To the excitement of the chase and the kill, which Lieutenant-Colonel Corbett imparts in a simple and direct but vivid and dramatic style, is added a picture of jungle life that is rare in the history of literature...
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