Big game hunting in Manchuria. Adapted from the Russian by Serge Ivanoff and Gertrude Mack
London: Hutchinson & Co., [1936]. Second impression (as usual); 8vo, pp. 285. [1]; frontispiece and 16 illustrations from photographs on 15 plates; original terracotta cloth stamped in black on the spine; extremities a little faded, else a very good, sound and clean copy. "A Russian hunter and trapper, Baikov relates hunting leopard near the river Midiankhe, roe deer on the slopes of the Djan-guan-tsailin Mountains, and tiger in the forested tracts of Girin province in southeastern Manchuria. There are additional adventures with bandits, visiting villages struck by bubonic plague, and a blood feud thrown in for good measure" (Czech). Czech, Asia, p. 18. Item #68202
Price: $450.00
