The Tribes on My Frontier

An amusing & intelligent naturalist at large in India in the late nineteenth century, an earlier incarnation of Gerald Durrell? "These papers" states the Preface, "were written during the Afghan War, and made their debut in the Times of India." Chapters are headed variously, The rats, The Lizards, The Bats, The Butterfly: Hunting Him, etc. Blue cloth covers with gilt design and chamfered edges. Slight wear to corners and to top and bottom of spine. Foxing to tissue frontispiece cover. B& W illustrations throughout. Text clean. Binding seems firm although it appears the binders may have used staples. Guttering to front eps (black paper) is split but front cover remaains firmly attached.