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1891 Great Hunting Grounds Adventures Wild Animals

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1891 Great Hunting Grounds Adventures Wild Animals Attacks Lion Tiger

This late 19th century book, ‘Adventures on the Great Hunting Grounds of the World’ is a collection of well authenticated facts, illustrative of the nature, habits, and various modes of capturing some of the largest and fiercest of the animal world, and to describe some of the numerous adventures, terrible fights, and hairbreadth escapes which the hunting of these animals has given rise to. Victor Meunier brought together writings from many different writers to tell the true stories of these adventurers and their interactions with the following animals:

The Gorilla.

Bears.

The Tiger.

The Lion.

The Mouflon.

The Musk Ox.

Tapirs.

The Hippopotamus.

The Rhinoceros.

The Elephants.

The Ostrich.

Crocodiles and Caymans.

This edition is expertly illustrated throughout!

Item number: #5740

Price: $350

MEUNIER, Victor

Adventures on the great hunting grounds of the world.

London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1891.

Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

[x], 304, 30, [2]

Language: English

Binding: Cloth; tight and secure

Size: ~7in X 5in (18cm x 12.5cm)

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