Beyond the flora and fauna of these varied geographies PKS has always had a keen interest and desire to mingle deep amidst the cultures and peoples in those regions, to understand their customs and ways. This upbringing has instilled in the author a hard-to-slake desire to be constantly on the move and to seek out, explore and live in an immersive way amongst unknown peoples and cultures.Īll through his life – and in all the countries he has lived in – he has seeked out adventure in the wilderness: the jungles and forests of India, South America and Africa, the rough mountainous terrains across continents, and the deserts of the Middle East.
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Read More.īecause of the nature of his father’s job, the author grew up traveling the world with his parents and brother he lived and studied in several different countries and cultures around the world - including Venezuela, Bahrain, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and India. The stories in this collection are extracted from rare works from the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries. By this time I was standing on tip-toe, trying to peer into the grass ahead of me, when suddenly I realized that what I was staring at behind an ant-heap was the tail-end of a tiger…” The “woofing” was repeated during the next minute, coming closer each time, until finally there was a resounding “Woof” in the tall grass about fifteen yards in front of me. “…I was standing at the junction of two pathways, and the beat had approached to within a hundred yards, when I heard “Woof! Woof!” I imagined the beaters had started up a big wild boar. The Panther sprang into the air, fell backwards, and then disappeared among the bushes…” If there had been more space, I should have waited and watched the Panther’s proceedings, but as I was afraid that she would drag the goat into the jungle, I fired at once, and immediately jumped up so as to see above the smoke. “…In another moment the old Panther sprang out of the jungle, made a pat at the kid, and then crouched by its side. Sitting on a machan built on a tree was the more common approach employed by Tiger hunters of yore but of course, there were exceptions.” The risk inherent should be obvious to all. “…Sitting on the ground in a thorn “Boma” for a lion in Africa is considered an ordinary enough thing to do but sitting on the ground for a tiger in dense jungles of the Indian subcontinent can be an entirely different experience.
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“…We have no word in English that properly embraces all this, but all are expressed by the Persian word ‘shikar!’…” This is a compilation of hunting tales from the jungles of India from the centuries gone by.
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