Author: Ken Czech, Editor
Publisher: SAFARI PRESS, May 2007
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1-57157-236-8
Synopsis
A wonderful collection of stories that is the best of the best from the great & varied literature that has sprung forth on Russian hunting in the last 150 years. Photos & illus; 6x9 inches, 275 pgs.
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Unlike Africa, Asia has but a few hunting countries that are or were great Valhallas of big-game hunting. After the solid success of Czech?s book on Chinese hunting (Hunting in the Land of the Dragon), he decided to do one more book on the other Asian giant: Russia. And when we speak of Russia we talk of all the terrain that goes from the Polish border in Europe to the Kamchatka Peninsula just above Japan. A country with a plethora of game animals and a rich big-game hunting history. Ken Czech, one of the foremost experts on Asian big-game hunting literature, chose some of the best known names to contribute to his work. All of it is big-game hunting, and the contributors are a who is who of Imperial Russian hunting: Prince Demidoff, Frank Wallace, George Littledale, Duc d?Orleans, Anthony Buxton, Paul Niedieck, and Ralph Cobbold to name a few. Whether it is pursuing snow sheep in Kamchatka, red deer in the Urals, tur in the Caucasus, or tiger on the Amur River, this book cover s all the big-game hunting that was once found in Russia. A wonderful collection of stories that is the best of the best from the great and varied literature that has sprung forth on Russian hunting in the last 150 years.