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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Big Game Shooting, volume 2 (of 2)
Clive Phillipps-Wolley and Charles Whymper
551 pages~10 hr 59 min read93 chapters$4.99
From the Arctic pack ice to the peaks of the Caucasus, this second volume follows the hunt across the world. Its quarry runs to the walrus, the polar bear, and the wild goats of the mountains, each with its own hard country. A sweeping record of nineteenth-century big game. Track the great beasts to the ends of the map.
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Inside this book
93 chapters
- 1BIG GAME SHOOTING
- 2CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME
- 3ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE SECOND VOLUME
- 4FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5WOODCUTS IN TEXT.
- 6BIG GAME SHOOTING
- 7CHAPTER I ARCTIC HUNTING
- 8I. WALRUS (Rosmarus trichechus)
- 9II. THE POLAR BEAR (Ursus maritimus)
- 10CHAPTER II THE CAUCASUS
- 11I. INTRODUCTORY
- 12II. NORTH-WEST CAUCASUS.
- 13III. SOUTHERN SLOPES OF THE CAUCASUS
- 14IV. PLAINS OF THE CAUCASUS
- 15CHAPTER III MOUNTAIN GAME OF THE CAUCASUS
- 16CHAPTER IV CAUCASIAN AUROCHS
- 17CHAPTER V OVIS ARGALI OF MONGOLIA
- 18CHAPTER VI THE CHAMOIS
+ 75 more. The full contents open with the book.
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