Hunting In The Mountains And Jungles Of Nepal

Past readers of Peter Byrne books know about his early hunting days as a tea planter in India and his exploits in Nepal hunting big game. We've also learned of his enthusiasm for the adventures of Jim Corbett. In Hunting in the Mountains and Jungles of Nepal, Byrne's latest oeuvre, he picks from among some of the seventy-two shikars he conducted in the 50s and 60s for tigers and other Nepalese game to bring us what he considers his most memorable hunts. Most tiger hunts were conducted via elephant back, from a machan, or by beaters pushing the quarry, but Byrne feels that the tiger hunts conducted on foot were by far the most memorable . . . for a good reason. They are extremely dangerous. He found that only very few clients dared to go after a tiger on foot. We read about the three most exciting tiger hunts Byrne ever conducted on foot, which includes the time he guided internationally famous big-game hunter James Mellon for his big cat.