Brandt Capt (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A fine inscribed by author copy in near fine jacket with bit of wear to top edge. Inscribed by Author(s).

1989 Mesilla, NM, 1st edn, 420pp, 140 photos, large format, 15 maps. An all encompassing book on the great continent of Asia. Twenty-three countries are covered in the text, including all of continental Asia east of the Soviet Ural Mountains, the Arabian Peninsula, the island nations of east and south-eastern Asia. All of the Asian big-game animals and their current status in every Asian country as well as their hunting, political environment and habitats are described. Special emphasis has been placed on the countries that permit sport hunting. The chapters include: Great Cats of Asia, Bears of Asia, Leather Sided Giants, Wild Cattle of Asia, Deer of Asia, Asian Wild Sheep/Goats and close Relatives, Wild Pigs of Asia, Asian Gazelles, and Antelopes. The following countries are covered in separate chapters: USSR, China, Mongolia, Turkey, Pakistan, Nepal, Indian Subcontinent, Bangladesh, Ceylon, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Iran, Arabian Peninsula and Middle East, Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), Malayan Peninsula, Thailand, Burma, Indonesian Islands, and Korea/Taiwan/Japan/Philippines. Contributors include G. Kenneth Whitehead on deer, John H. Batten, Rudolf Sand and many more. Fine book, very good plus jacket, minor wear to top and bottom.

Condition: Fine copy in fine slipcase. 1996 Long Beach, 1st edn, 288pp, photos, drawings, and distribution maps, ltd to 1000 numbered, signed, & slipcased copies. Most hunting literature dealing with wild cattle centers on the African buffalo; few, if any, books deal exclusively with the horned giants of Asia and Europe. They are equally as dangerous and difficult to hunt as the African buffalo, but the Asian gaur, banteng, and water buffalo are simply not as well known. Capt. John Brandt, who lived for years in Indochina and who is a well-known buffalo and bison expert, has brought us a new book filled with hunting stories and anecdotes on each member of the Asian and European bovines. This book also includes many never-before-published pictures of such rarities as the kouprey of Indochina, wisent, yak, gayal, tamaraw, and anoa. The newly discovered Sao-la (or Vu Quang ox) from Vietnam is described, and Capt. Brandt includes the muskox, the plains bison, and the wood bison of North America as well.