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*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.706/mode/2up ''How I Killed the Tiger being An Account of my Encounter with a Royal Bengal Tiger''] by Lieut.-Colonel Frank Sheffield 1902. With illustrations. Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. The incident took place in 1871 at Palaspai, Midnapore, and the author was badly wounded.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.706/mode/2up ''How I Killed the Tiger being An Account of my Encounter with a Royal Bengal Tiger''] by Lieut.-Colonel Frank Sheffield 1902. With illustrations. Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. The incident took place in 1871 at Palaspai, Midnapore, and the author was badly wounded.
*[http://www.archive.org/details/wildmenwildbeast00gordrich ''Wild Men and Wild Beasts:  Scenes in Camp and Jungle''] by William Gordon-Cumming, 1872 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/details/wildmenwildbeast00gordrich ''Wild Men and Wild Beasts:  Scenes in Camp and Jungle''] by William Gordon-Cumming, 1872 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/sportingmilitary00walsrich/page/n9/mode/2up ''Sporting and military adventures in Nepaul and the Himalayas. A narrative of personal encounters and narrow escapes''] by Major Blaney Walshe [1875]. Archive.org. Although elsewhere<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yyHsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA318 Page 318] ''British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of British Autobiographies Published Or Written Before 1951''. Compiled by William Matthews originally published 1955 Google Books</ref> catalogued as a personal account, this book appears to be an '''adventure novel'''.
*[https://archive.org/details/largesmallgameof00bald ''The Large and Small Game of Bengal and the Northwestern Provinces of India''] by Captain J H Baldwin, late of H P Bengal Staff Corps 1876 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/largesmallgameof00bald ''The Large and Small Game of Bengal and the Northwestern Provinces of India''] by Captain J H Baldwin, late of H P Bengal Staff Corps 1876 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/narrativeoftrave00bradrich ''A Narrative of Travel and Sport in Burmah, Siam and the Malay Peninsula''] by John Bradley 1876 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/narrativeoftrave00bradrich ''A Narrative of Travel and Sport in Burmah, Siam and the Malay Peninsula''] by John Bradley 1876 Archive.org
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:[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:354/#page/8/mode/2up ''Fifty years' reminiscences of India : a retrospect of travel, adventure and shikar'']  by Colonel Pollock, [FitzWilliam Thomas Pollock] Madras Staff Corps  1896 seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu. [https://archive.org/details/fiftyyearsremini00poll Archive.org version] The author arrived in Madras in early 1849, and was posted to a Native Infantry Regiment. In 1853 he was appointed to the Sappers and Miners in Burma.
:[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:354/#page/8/mode/2up ''Fifty years' reminiscences of India : a retrospect of travel, adventure and shikar'']  by Colonel Pollock, [FitzWilliam Thomas Pollock] Madras Staff Corps  1896 seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu. [https://archive.org/details/fiftyyearsremini00poll Archive.org version] The author arrived in Madras in early 1849, and was posted to a Native Infantry Regiment. In 1853 he was appointed to the Sappers and Miners in Burma.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HHawmAEACAAJ&pg=PP1 ''Nilgiri Sporting Reminiscences'']  by an Old Shikarri [G. A. R. D. ie G A R Dawson] 1880 Google Books. Also available [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/msu.31293016921979?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 HathiTrust Digital Library] where the images may be rotated.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HHawmAEACAAJ&pg=PP1 ''Nilgiri Sporting Reminiscences'']  by an Old Shikarri [G. A. R. D. ie G A R Dawson] 1880 Google Books. Also available [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/msu.31293016921979?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 HathiTrust Digital Library] where the images may be rotated.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924016411872/mode/2up ''The Sportsman's Guide to Kashmir & Ladak, etc. Reproduced with additions from letters which appeared in the "Asian."''] by A E Ward , Bengal Staff Corps. Second and revised edition 1883 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.06759 ''The Tourist's and Sportsman’s Guide to Kashmir and Ladak''] by A E Ward, Bengal Staff Corps 1896. Archive.org
*''India and Tiger-Hunting'' by Colonel Julius Barras Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/indiaandtigerhu02barrgoog Volume I] 1883; [https://archive.org/details/indiaandtigerhu01barrgoog Series II] 1885
*''India and Tiger-Hunting'' by Colonel Julius Barras Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/indiaandtigerhu02barrgoog Volume I] 1883; [https://archive.org/details/indiaandtigerhu01barrgoog Series II] 1885
:''The New Shikari at our Indian Stations'' by Julius Barras 1885 Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/newshikariatour00barrgoog#page/n3/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/newshikariatour01barrgoog#page/n4/mode/2up Volume 2]
:''The New Shikari at our Indian Stations'' by Julius Barras 1885 Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/newshikariatour00barrgoog#page/n3/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/newshikariatour01barrgoog#page/n4/mode/2up Volume 2]

Revision as of 01:04, 28 March 2021

Online accounts about hunting, which was usually called sport or shikar in India.

Also including online accounts about fishing.

Many accounts include detailed observations about animals and their habitats.

External links

Hunting accounts

Additions and corrections, pages 167-169, Volume 50, 1951, same author and publication. Archive.org.
"Indian Game", (from Quail to Tiger) by William Rice 1884 Archive.org
The Spear and the Rifle; or Recollections of Sport in India by an Old Shekarree [Henry Astbury Leveson] 1860 Google Books
The Forest and the Field by H. A. L. The "Old Shekarry" 1867. Archive.org. India and Africa
Wrinkles; or, Hints to sportsmen and travellers on dress, equipment, and camp life by The Old Shekarry [Henry Astbury Leveson], a New Edition 1874. Archive.org
Digitise on Demand pay service Pack Gear for Elephants by G.P. Sanderson 1882. National Archives of India.
  • Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills : with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the Northern Division, Madras Presidency ... by Lieut.-Colonel Pollok, Madras Staff Corps. (Fitzwilliam Thomas Pollok) 1879 Volume I, Volume II Archive.org
Fifty years' reminiscences of India : a retrospect of travel, adventure and shikar by Colonel Pollock, [FitzWilliam Thomas Pollock] Madras Staff Corps 1896 seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu. Archive.org version The author arrived in Madras in early 1849, and was posted to a Native Infantry Regiment. In 1853 he was appointed to the Sappers and Miners in Burma.
The Tourist's and Sportsman’s Guide to Kashmir and Ladak by A E Ward, Bengal Staff Corps 1896. Archive.org
  • India and Tiger-Hunting by Colonel Julius Barras Archive.org Volume I 1883; Series II 1885
The New Shikari at our Indian Stations by Julius Barras 1885 Archive.org Volume 1, Volume 2
  • Reminiscences Of Sport In India by Major General E F Burton, Madras Staff Corps 1885 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Poor quality print, but generally readable. Lacks most illustrations.
An Indian Olio by Lieut.-General E F Burton catalogued 1893. Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. [1884] edition 2 illustrations are reversely titled, probably incorrectly. Archive.org. (Olio=Miscellany)
Powder, Spur, and Spear : a Sporting Medley by J. Moray Brown 1889. Archive.org.
Stray Sport, Volume I by J Moray Brown 1893. Archive.org. Lacks illustrations. Mainly India. Volume II does not include India.
A Summer in High Asia, being a record of sport and travel in Baltisan and Ladakh by Capt F E S Adair, late Rifle Brigade 1899 Archive.org. 2nd file, images may be marginally better.
Volume I only (although catalogued Vol. 2] 1911 edition, published in four volumes. Archive.org
The author was appointed as Assistant Conservator of Forests in 1866 at Hoshangabad, C P.
  • Forest Life and Sport in India by Sainthill Eardley-Wilmot, late Inspector-General of Forests to the Government of India. 1910 Archive.org. The author joined the Indian Forest Service in December 1873 at Lucknow.
The Life of an Elephant by S Eardley-Wilmot 1912 Archive.org
  • Life in an Indian Outpost [Buxa Duar, North East India] by Major Gordon Casserly, Indian Army, first published c 1910. Archive.org. Hunting was a major activity. He was also the author of two books of fiction set in the same area:
The Elephant God by Gordon Casserly 1921 Gutenberg.org.
The Jungle Girl by Gordon Casserly 1922 Archive.org
Stalks in the Himalaya: Jottings of a Sportsman-Naturalist by E P Stebbing 1912. With illustrations by the author and his wife. Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection.
"The Strap-Hanger of the Ganges" by Captain J G Bennett RAMC, page 474 The Wild World Magazine Volume 42, April 1919. Hunting a gavial (fish-eating crocodile) near Delhi.
Part 1 1933;60:5 377-392. Part 2 1933;60:6 456-461. Part 3 1933;61:1 61-70. Part 4 1933;61:2 133-144. Part 5 1933;61:4 304-309. Part 6 1933;61:5 379-393. Part 7: not online. Part 8 1934;62:2 142-150. Part 9 1934;62:3 224-233. Part 10 1934;62:5 365-376. Part 11 1934;62:6 430-440. Part 12 1934;63:2 127-134. Part 13 1934;63:3 193-206.

Fishing accounts

Tank Angling in India author catalogued Henry Sullivan Thomas and catalogued 1887. Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Asiatic Society of Mumbai Collection. Note title page and pages of the Preface are missing. Also available to readers in North America etc, on HathiTrust Digital Library.
The Angler in India ; or, The Mighty Mahseer. Being the incorporated 3rd edition of The Angler in Northern India and The Mighty Mahseer by Skene Dhu , pseudonym for Cecil Lang 1923. With chapters on Burma and Ceylon. The University of British Colombia, Hawthorn Fly Fishing & Angling Collection
Note, these files may be slow to open and you may need to change browsers, (e.g. to Chrome) as problems were at times noted with Safari.

Game Birds

Game, Shore, and Water Birds of India, with additional references to their allied species in other parts of the world by Colonel A Le Messurier, late Royal Engineers. 4th edition 1904 Archive.org

References

  1. Page 318 British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of British Autobiographies Published Or Written Before 1951. Compiled by William Matthews originally published 1955 Google Books
  2. "Books About Early African Hunters" shakariconnection.com