A shooting trip to Kamchatka (1904) (14780098164)

Identifier: shootingtriptoka00demi (find matches)
Title: A shooting trip to Kamchatka
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Demidov, Elim Pavlovich, principe di San Donato, b. 1867
Subjects: Hunting -- Russia (Federation) Kamchatka Peninsula Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : R. Ward, Ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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c4 O 5 s Q > A SHOOTING TRIP TO KAMCHATKA E. DEMIDOFF Prince San Donato aithor ofhunting trips in the cavcasus •after wild sheep in the ALTAI AND MONGOLIA WITH 113 ILLUSTRATIONS 5 PHOTOGRAVURES AND 2 MAPS LONDON ROWLAND WARD, limited 166, PICCADILLY1904 All rights )eser-jcd TO MY WIFE THIS I.OOK. OF SPORT AND TRAVELIS DEDICATED PREFACE IN 1897 I devoted six months to a successful ex-pedition on the borders of Siberia and in ^longoliaafter Ovis aiuiuoji, the largest sheep in the world, anaccount of which I have since published in a volumeentitled A/tei IVi/d Sheep in the Altai and Mongolia.Since then several short trips, one after ibex inthe Sierra Nevada, another to the Kouban districtof the Caucasus and to the Galician Carpathians,and a third to Sardinia after moufflon, left my longingsfor pursuit of game in more remote regions still un-satisfied. Finally, in the autumn of 1899 circumstancesonce more favoured four months leave of absence,durino- which time a oood deal mioht be d