CHINESE HUNTER, WONG-QUINCEY 1939 Big Game Hunting China Inner Mongolia

Description: CHINESE HUNTER J. WONG-QUINCEY ROBERT HALE: LONDON 1939 1st edition. 22 x 15 cm. (8vo.) 383 pp. Frontis + 15 plates illustrated on recto & verso. A Chinese scholar educated in England with an emphasis on Shakespeare, Wong-Quincey took time away from his professorial duties in China to hunt big game. In 1916, he embarked on his first shikar in southeastern Shansi province where he hunted wild boars and goral. Later, and accompanied by a party of Chinese hunters, he bagged wild boar and deer (he does not identify the species). Near Kweihuacheng in Inner Mongolia, he collected burhel and argali, with an additional chapter on hunting roe deer in Shansi. With good humor, the author notes his own abilities to always hit what he shoots at, attributing the misses to his advancing age and thick glasses. (Czech, Bibliography of Asian Big Game Hunting Books.) CONTENTS FOREWORD AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION HILLS OFF KANGCHUANG MAINLY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WILD-FOWL AND SMALL-GAME SHOOTING MY FIRST BIG-GAME HUNTING TRIP A WILD-GOAT CHASE NEAR MIAO FENG SHAN A HASTY RETREAT FROM INNER MONGOLIA HUNTING THE BOUNCING GORAL A SHANSI MIXED BAG BIG-HORN AND SMALL-HORN IN INNER MONGOLIA ROE-DEER SHOOTING IN SHANSI CASUAL OBSERVATIONS CHINESE HUNTER J. WONG-QUINCEY ROBERT HALE: LONDON 1939 First edition. A Chinese scholar educated in England with an emphasis on Shakespeare, Wong-Quincey took time away from his professorial duties in China to hunt big game. In 1916, he embarked on his first shikar in southeastern Shansi province where he hunted wild boars and goral. Later, and accompanied by a party of Chinese hunters, he bagged wild boar and deer (he does not identify the species). Near Kweihuacheng in Inner Mongolia, he collected burhel and argali, with an additional chapter on hunting roe deer in Shansi. With good humor, the author notes his own abilities to always hit what he shoots at, attributing the misses to his advancing age and thick glasses. (Czech, Bibliography of Asian Big Game Hunting Books.) CONTENTS FOREWORD AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION HILLS OFF KANGCHUANG MAINLY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WILD-FOWL AND SMALL-GAME SHOOTING MY FIRST BIG-GAME HUNTING TRIP A WILD-GOAT CHASE NEAR MIAO FENG SHAN A HASTY RETREAT FROM INNER MONGOLIA HUNTING THE BOUNCING GORAL A SHANSI MIXED BAG BIG-HORN AND SMALL-HORN IN INNER MONGOLIA ROE-DEER SHOOTING IN SHANSI CASUAL OBSERVATIONS 22 x 15 cm. (8vo.) 383 pp. Frontis + 15 plates illustrated on recto & verso. A reading copy only, ex-library in library binding with the usual stamps and marks. A well read copy, in circulation 1939-59 but still soundly bound and acceptable. Images sell! Get Supersized Images & Free Image Hosting Attention Sellers - Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva.com.

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