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Excerpt from The Diary of a Sportsman Naturalist in India
Since the Armistice Part II has received some revision. The rest remains as written. In Jungle by-ways I dealt fully with the description and habits of the various game animals of the Plains of India. I have not therefore considered it necessary to repeat this matter here. The sporting anecdotes and material selected from my note books, which form the greater part of the book, are designed to lead up to and emphasize the necessity which exists of affording an adequate protection to the Game and other Ani mals of India. That this matter, with its threefold objects of maintaining the animals of the Chase, securing a revenue from the economic products yielded by the Fauna of the country, and preserving the Fauna as a whole, is one of the first importance, is known to that small band of shikaris who are both sportsmen and naturalists. A perusal of the chapter dealing with the operations of the Indian unarmed poacher will, of itself, bear evidence to the fact that India is threatened with an irretrievable decrease in and deteriora tion of the most interesting members of its Fauna.
To Sir John Prescott Hewett, Mrs. E. M. Sparkes, and my Wife my thanks are due for the striking Plates which illustrate the Diary.
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Since the Armistice Part II has received some revision. The rest remains as written. In Jungle by-ways I dealt fully with the description and habits of the various game animals of the Plains of India. I have not therefore considered it necessary to repeat this matter here. The sporting anecdotes and material selected from my note books, which form the greater part of the book, are designed to lead up to and emphasize the necessity which exists of affording an adequate protection to the Game and other Ani mals of India. That this matter, with its threefold objects of maintaining the animals of the Chase, securing a revenue from the economic products yielded by the Fauna of the country, and preserving the Fauna as a whole, is one of the first importance, is known to that small band of shikaris who are both sportsmen and naturalists. A perusal of the chapter dealing with the operations of the Indian unarmed poacher will, of itself, bear evidence to the fact that India is threatened with an irretrievable decrease in and deteriora tion of the most interesting members of its Fauna.
To Sir John Prescott Hewett, Mrs. E. M. Sparkes, and my Wife my thanks are due for the striking Plates which illustrate the Diary.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - E. P. Stebbing
Hardback
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ISBN - 9780365145653
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Page Count - 356
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ISBN - 9781332053735
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Page Count - 358
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