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Jungle Trails in Northern India.
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 1:09 pm
by Bespoke
I just finished reading Jungle Trails in Northern India by John Hewett.
It's a very interesting read
Re: Jungle Trails in Northern India.
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 2:04 pm
by shooter
please tell us more.
Re: Jungle Trails in Northern India.
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 2:46 pm
by Bespoke
The author (English Officer Sir John Hewett) narrates his shooting/hunting experiences in Northern India (Tarai,Garhwal,Kumaon,Nepal and Mirzapur) including shooting in Cooch Behar and Central provinces. It has numerous accounts of tiger(Including maneater of Ascot),rhino and leopard shooting.
I find three chapters very informative and interesting
1) Statistics of lengths and weights of Tiger.
2) Relative dangers of different methods of Tiger shooting.
3) How to arrange beat for a Tiger.
The is also very interesting narration of how elephants were used in shooting and insight into famous Rampur and Balrampur elephant stables in addition to methods used in capturing ,training ,preferred gender of elephant for shooting etc.. for purposes of shooting.
The last chapter is author’s daughter narrative of her visit and shooting trip to Leh in 1921
Overall a very nice pre Captain Corbett days read it was also interesting to read more about Captain Corbett’s hero Sir Henry Ramsay.