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THE JUNGLE IN SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW
de F.W.CHAMPION , MA [Oxon] FZS
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LONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS Brown Cloth Boards with gilt titles to spine, 260 x 195 mm approx. xvi + 270 pp + press reviews of author's previous work With a Camera in Tiger-land. 94 b/w photos (of 95 listed). Undated [1934]. After war service with the British Indian Army in WWI he joined the Imperial Forestry Service in the United Provinces of India and became Deputy Conservator of Forests. he abhorred shooting and killing preferring shooting wildlife with a camera in the Sivalik Hills. He pioneered camera trapping and developed cameras triggered by tripwires obtaining remarkable night-time photographs, which were among the first of wild tigers, leopards, sloth bears, dholes and other wildlife. He was a founding member of India's first national park established in 1935.(wikipedia). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG no d/j (Book- no notable shelf wear or soiling, no previous owner name or insc. light sporadic foxing to half title, end papers and remainder of book block clean. NB One plate missing per list. Binding sound with no other notable defects).
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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- THE JUNGLE IN SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW
- Autor
- F.W.CHAMPION , MA [Oxon] FZS
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- CHATTO & WINDUS
- Lugar de publicación
- LONDON
- Palabras clave
- The Jungle in Sunlight and Shadow, F W Champion, MA [Oxon] FZS, Indian Tigers, Imperial Forest Service India, The Siwalik Hills, Nature Conservation, British Indian Army,
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