Shooting In the Himalayas: A Journal of Sporting Adventures and Travel in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet, Cashmere, & Etc

Colonel Fred Markham, Shooting In the Himalayas: A Journal of Sporting Adventures and Travel in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet, Cashmere, & Etc, London: Richard Bentley, 1854

xii + 375 pages including 1 engraved title page, 1 frontispiece and 7 tinted lithographic plates after Sir E P Campbell by Hullmandel & Walton, 1 folding black and white lithographed map, woodcuts throughout; original green cloth, with gilt decoration on the front and back boards along with the spine
10 x 6.5 in (25.5 x 17 cm)

One of the earliest books on hunting in the Himalayas.

Shooting in the Himalayas is a sporting journal written by Colonel Fred Markham during his six-year stay in the Himalayas and its surroundings as commander of the 32nd regiment that embarked for India in the early summer of 1846 in connection with the campaign on the Sutlej. This is a journal of a sportsman's life in the Himalayas with lengthy accounts of the wildlife in India and Tibet, from a British hunter's perspective. Throughout his travels in the Himalayas, Markham gives extensive descriptions of animals such as the tahir, deer, musk-deer (a sketch of which can be seen on p. 101), leopard, gooral, pheasant, snow-bear, burrell (the famous wild sheep of the Himalayas; a sketch of a burrell's head can be seen on p. 71), gerow (a sketch of which can be seen on p. 40), otters, snow pheasants, black partridge, quail, the hungul (a twelve-horned animal, with six points on each horn), the markhoor (a species of wild goat), the ibex and the Ovis Ammon (a mountain sheep; a sketch of an Ovis Ammon skull can be seen on p. 338). The animals and the wildlife are meticulously described as well as ways to hunt them. There are sketched illustrations of animals, people and nature throughout the book. A map titled "Sketch Map of part of the Himalayas, Thibet, Ladac, Cashmere, etc" is available on pp. 2-3.

Reference: J R Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, 503

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