A Sportswoman in India "Personal Adventures and Experiences of Travel in Known and Unknown India"

London: Hutchinson & Co Pater Noster Row. Philadelphia; J.B. Lippincott, 1900.

Price: $250.00


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First edition. With 48 illus and a photogravure portait of the author as frontispiece. ix, [i], 408pp. 8vo ((8-½x5-¾"). Publisher's red cloth, stamped in fgilt. Fine. Czech, Asia, p. 18.

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With amazing reports of pig-sticking and hunting leopards, bears, tigers, elephants, and crocodiles. She went to Peshawar, the Khyber Pass, Kashmir, the Himalayas, the Deccan, and Ootacamund.
Savory was English sportswoman who became a best selling author. Savory took advantage of the rare opportunity for a woman to hunt in India. She was invited by a local maharajah to participate in a pig stick & also hunted for bear, tahr and tiger.

"With an eye toward travel, sport, and adventure, Savory arrived in Bombay, proceeded to Agra and was invited to participate in pig sticking by the maharajah, an episode in which one of her female companions was unhorsed and nearly savaged by a boar. Her caravan continued to Chamba, then into Kashmir where bear and tahr were hunted. She proceeded south into the Deccan Plateau to the region near Seunderabad where she bagged three tigers from machans amidst sweltering conditions..." (Czech).