Jungle By-ways in India

This book is well worth reprinting for the delightful little wildlife sketches alone; plus the humorous depictions of Indian life a hundred years ago which make the written words come vividly alive. Add to these the author’s observant, knowledgeable eye and dry sense of the ridiculous which make the old Raj life immediate as through it happened only yesterday. Reading these stories, as well as essential for any would be shikaris or wildlifers, is an enchantingly human way of learning nineteenth century Indian history – much more fun than all those dreadful kings, battles and dates! Being originally composed in an age when time mattered little, and the precision of verbal expression of prime importance these stories sparkle brightly yet soothe the mind in ways of which modern writers seem largely unaware.