The Rupa Book of Shikar Stories

Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 142
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129103583

Description

Thrilling tales of true adventure in the jungles of India!

Big game hunters and others describe their encounters with man-eating tigers, musth elephants, panthers, and other predators in a land still teeming with wildlife.

Men sought the jungle for sport, for adventure and for the freedom that only the great forests could offer.

Complete your collection of Ruskin Bond’s popular Rupa anthologies with this, the lucky 12th in the series.

Contents

Introduction

The Tiger and the Terrier
A Letter from the Jungle
A Further Letter from the Jungle
The Panther and The Shepherd
Indian Lions
Some Panthers
An Adventure with a Tigress
The Midnight Visitor
Hunting With A Camera
Drought in the Jungle
Shooting in the Doon
Hunters of Souls
Encounters With Big Game
On the Banks of the Narbada
The Haunts of Isabeline