Their Haunts and Habits from Personal Observation; with an account of the modes of capturing and taming elephants.

By G.P Sanderson
1890
Fourth Edition.

George Peress Sanderson (1848– 5 May 1892, Madras) was a British naturalist who worked in the public works department in the princely state of Mysore. He began a system for capturing wild elephants that were destructive to agriculture so as to use them in captivity. He was known in the popular press as the "Elephant King" and wrote a book on his life in the forests of India. Rudyard Kipling is believed to have modelled the character "Petersen Sahib" in his Toomai of the elephants after him.

Map together with all illustrations present.
Some preliminary foxing.
Tape repairs / back end paper missing / some thumbing

190mm x 225mm x 37mm

R2,000