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Also including online accounts about '''fishing'''.
Many accounts include detailed observations about animals and their habitats.
==External links==
*[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/1/65.full.pdf "Suggestions as to the Cheapest Methods of Shooting Tiger in the Central Provinces, India"] by Exile ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1934;62:1 pages 65-71.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1934-when-the-red-gods-call-being-the-biography-of-a-shikari-in-the-making-by-malet-s-pdf/ ''When the Red Gods Call: Being The Biography Of A Shikari In The Making''] by Rawdon Malet 1934. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If the download does not display, go to Books/Indian Subcontinent/scroll to 1934. An account of the hunting career of James Carmody Collinson. He came to India after demobilisation following WW1. His travels took him to Baltistan, Tibet and Ladakh, where he hunted ibex and other game; journeying to India's Central Provinces, he successfully pursued tiger, sambur and bear<ref>[https://www.shakariconnection.com/books-about-early-african-hunters.html "Books About Early African Hunters"] shakariconnection.com </ref>.
* ''Shikar Memories'' by Lieut.-Col. H S Wood [Henry Stotesbury Wood. ], IMS (Late M O 2/8th Gurkhas and Civil Surgeon, Assam) 1934. Full title: ''Shikar Memories. A record of sport and observation in India and Burma''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211390 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/tigerhunters029908mbp ''The Tiger Hunters''] by Brigadier-General R G Burton 1936 Archive.org
* ''Jungle Trails in Northern India: Reminiscences of Hunting in India'' by John Hewett. With 24 plates and a map 1938. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209125 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Sir John was Governor of United Provinces with many royal friends. Hunting largely between 1907 and 1912, including tiger hunting in the jungles of Tarai, Cooch Behar, the Central Provinces, and up north in Kumaon and Garhwal.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/modernpigstickin00wardrich#page/n9/mode/2up ''Modern pig-sticking''] by A. E. Wardrop, Royal Horse Artillery, with chapters by J. Vaughan, F. W. Caton Jones, M. M. Crawford, and H. E. Medlicott 1914 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wVHRpOaH8C4C&pg=PT45 The Kadir <nowiki>[</nowiki>Cup<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Sketches from ''My Sketch Book in the Shiny'' by Snaffles (Charlie Johnson Payne) 1930 Google Books
*The magazine ''The Indian Forester'' from c 1884 included the additional title ''A Monthly Magazine Of Forestry, Agriculture, Shikar And Travel''. See [[Forestry#Historical books online|Forestry - Historical books online]]
===Fishing accounts===
*''The Rod in India : being hints how to obtain sport, with remarks on the natural history of fish and their culture, and illustrations of fish and tackle'' by Henry Sullivan Thomas, Madras Civil Service, Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924003445230 1873 edition], [https://archive.org/details/inindiabeingh00thomrodrich Revised 2nd edition 1881] , [https://archive.org/details/rodinindiabeingh00thomrich Revised 3rd edition 1897] This author also wrote ''Tank Angling in India'' 1887, available to readers in North America etc, on the [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100538354 HathiTrust Digital Library].
