Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India: Their Haunts and Habits From Personal Observations; With an Account of the Modes and Capturing and Taming Elephants. E-book. Formato PDF - 9780259689751
Un ebook di G. P. Sanderson edito da Forgotten Books, 2017
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I landed in Madras in 1864, and proceeded to a station in the Mysore country where I had friends. I was fresh from school and looked with delight upon the prospect of a coffee-planter's life, in which I had been promised a start by a friend, himself a planter. But coffee was in one of the vicissitudes with which that enterprise seems so frequently to be struggling - at least my friend's estate was - and before I had completed a voyage round the Cape he had been eaten out by the "borer" insect, or his prospects had shared the blight at that time affecting his trees' leaves - I forget which. My hopes of a jungle-life seemed to be doomed; my vision of wild elephants, tigers, and bison to be hopelessly dispelled! However, in a month or two a friend who was engaged in prosecuting some surveys for Government took me with him, and in the next six months I learnt a little of the country and surveying, and a good deal about duck and antelope shooting.
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- Titolo: Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India: Their Haunts and Habits From Personal Observations; With an Account of the Modes and Capturing and Taming Elephants. E-book. Formato PDF
- Autore: G. P. Sanderson
- Editore: Forgotten Books
- Data di Pubblicazione: 19 Ottobre '17
- Formato: PDF
- Protezione: nessuna
- ISBN-13: 9780259689751
