Thirty Years of Shikar
Author : Sir Edward Braddon
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Big game hunting
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Author : Sir Edward Braddon
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Big game hunting
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Author : Jack Warner
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 2003-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765303434
"Shikar" pits Grady Brickhouse, sheriff of Hartesville, Georgia, against a fearsome opponent--a full-grown Bengal tiger that has somehow found its way to his jurisdiction.
Author : John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1526119587
This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. Through a study of the game laws and the beginnings of conservation in the 19th and early-20th centuries, the author demonstrates the racial inequalities which existed between Europeans and indigenous hunters. Africans were denied access to game, and the development of game reserves and national parks accelerated this process. Indigenous hunters in Africa and India were turned into "poachers" and only Europeans were permitted to hunt. In India, the hunting of animals became the chief recreation of military officers and civilian officials, a source of display and symbolic dominance of the environment. Imperial hunting fed the natural history craze of the day, and many hunters collected trophies and specimens for private and public collections as well as contributing to hunting literature. Adopting a radical approach to issues of conservation, this book links the hunting cult in Africa and India to the development of conservation, and consolidates widely-scattered material on the importance of hunting to the economics and nutrition of African societies.
Author : Christopher Hare
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 22,17 MB
Release : 1895
Category :
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Author : Albert Bernhard Bach
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Singing
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Author : Denham Jordan
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Birds
ISBN :
Author : Ezra Rashkow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2023-01-16
Category :
ISBN : 0192868527
This book is a study of the concepts of endangerment and extinction. Examining interlinking discourses of biological and cultural diversity loss in western and central India, it problematizes the long history of human endangerment and extinction discourse.
Author : Mrs. Oliphant
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Who Was Lost and Is Found" (A Novel) by Mrs. Oliphant. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : James John Haldane Burgess
Publisher : Edinburgh : W. Blackwood
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,93 MB
Release : 1894
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Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1134131496
This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics furnished a vocabulary and representational modes for the British to construct particular images of India. Looking specifically at the aesthetic modes of the marvellous, the monstrous, the sublime, the picturesque and the luxuriant, Nayar marks the shift in the rhetoric – from the exploration narratives from the age of mercantile exploration to that of the ‘shikar’ memoirs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s extreme exotic. English Writing and India provides an important new study of colonial aesthetics, even as it extends current scholarship on the modes of early British representations of new lands and cultures.