The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon
The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon
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This work is in the public domain. The author died in 1893; in Sri Lanka copyright lasts for the author's life plus 70 years, so the work has been free since 1964.
About this book
Baker's hunting memoir of the Ceylon jungles of the 1840s — elephants, buffalo, boar and deer, tracked on foot through country that was then almost unknown to Europeans. Read today as a record of the wildlife and terrain of a vanished Ceylon rather than as sport.
- Language of the book
- English
- Category
- Travel
- First published
- 1854
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