SPORT IN THE CRIMEA AND CAUCASUS

By Clive Phillipps-Wolley, F.R.G.S.

late British Vice-Consul at Kertch

Several ink stamps to preliminaries and title-page and occasionally throughout otherwise generally clean and tidy internally. Boards just a little rubbed and marked but still overall a very good example of this scarce book.

1881 1st edition. 8vo (148 x 228mm). Ppx,370. Not illustrated. Blue cloth, black wildfowl motif and rules to upper board, spine titled in gilt.

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The author recounts his sporting experiences of the Crimean Peninsula and Caucasus with much detail on the terrain and the people of the area. Includes detailed descriptions of encounters with wild boar, bear, a variety of deer and antelope along with a great deal of wildfowling and other game bird shooting.

Contents include:- Sport in the Crimea; Crasnoi lais; Odessa and Miskitchee; The Red Forest and Black Sea Coast; Heiman's Datch; Golovinsky; Dense coverts; Hunting with dogs; Return to Kertch; Tiflis; En route for Daghestan; The Lesghian Mountains; From Goktchai to Lenkoran; Shores of the Caspian - return to Tiflis; The rains.