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An Annotated Bibliography of Books Related to Hunting the Wild Sheep and Goats of the World An Annotated Bibliography of Books Related to Hunting the Wild Sheep and Goats of the World by Dr. Ken Czech Dr. Raul Valdez Safari Press Inc. Table Of Contents Acknowledgments.....................................................................vi Introduction.............................................................................vii Adair.to.Axbey...........................................................................1 Babala.to.Byroade....................................................................13 Caldwell.to.Cutting..............................................................36 Dalrymple.to.Durham............................................................53 Easton.to.Evans........................................................................63 Fawcett.to.Freeman.................................................................69 Gardner.to.Guillemard...........................................................77 Photo Section..........................................................................87 Haggard.to.Hutchinson.......................................................119 Imam.to.Irby......................................................................... 138 James.to.Judd..........................................................................140 Kahn.to.Kuntze.....................................................................145 Lacey.to.Lydekker..................................................................155 MacIntyre.to.Myers...............................................................165 Nazaroff.to.Nowicki.............................................................183 O’Connor.to.Owen................................................................189 Page.to.Prothero....................................................................195 Quimby.................................................................................. 208 Radclyffe.to.Rydell............................................................... 209 Saad.to.Sykes......................................................................... 223 Taber.to.Tyacke.....................................................................251 Usak.to.Üstay.........................................................................259 Valdez.to.Vokins.................................................................. 260 Walker.to.Wright................................................................. 265 Yajko.to.Yurén....................................................................... 279 Zumbo....................................................................................281 Appendix.I:.Natural.History.Books, ....Guides,.and.References.................................................... 285 Appendix.II:.Common.and.Scientific.Names.of. Wild.Sheep,.Goats,.and.Related.Mountain.Ungulates..... 291 A (Adair, Capt. F. E. S.) F. E. S. A. Sport in Ladakh. London: Horace Cox, 1895. 4to., 32 pp., frontis, photo plates. Light blue cloth with gilt stamping and sheep photo inset on front board. In this scarce work, the author used five articles originally appearing in The Field magazine detailing a five-month sporting expedition in Baltistan and Ladakh. He hunted ibex, bharal, goa antelope, Ovis ammon, and urial, with chapters on each of these species. Adair, F[rederick] E. S. A Summer in High Asia: Being a Record of Sport and Travel in Baltistan and Ladakh. London: W. Thacker & Co., 1899. 8vo., xii + 288 pp., frontis, folding map, illustrated plates. Tan cloth with pictorial stamping. In this classic of high-mountain hunting, Adair and his companions crossed the Chorbat River into Ladakh where they stalked ibex and Ovis vignei. After reaching Leh, they hunted Tibetan argali and urial. Adams, Andrew Leith. Wanderings of a Naturalist in India, the Western Himalayas and Cashmere. Edinburgh: Edmonston & Doug- las, 1867. 8vo., xi + 333 pp., frontis. Green cloth with gilt on spine and title. Adams, a noted naturalist, describes India’s abundance of wildlife, with vignettes of hunting markhor on the Pir Panjal and ibex in Kashmir, and with notes on other game and bird specimens he collected. Adams, Chuck. Super Slam! Adventures with North American Big Game. Chanhassen, MN: ihunt! Communications, 2003. 8vo., 351 pp., photos. Laminated pictorial boards. Bibliography of Hunting the Wild Sheep and Goats of the World Adams offers chapters on hunting all North American big game with his bow, including mountain goat and the Grand Slam of Sheep. He collected a goat on Olivia’s Nipple in northern British Columbia; a Dall sheep in the Mackenzie Mountains of the Northwest Territories; a Stone ram near Watson Lake in the Yukon; a bighorn in west-central Alberta; and a desert ram in northwest Arizona’s Hualapai Reservation. Aflalo, F[rederick] G., ed. Sport in Europe. London: Sands and Co., 1901. 4to., xii + 483 pp., frontis photo, and illustrated plates. Olive cloth with pictorial gilt stamping. This compendium of articles includes a lengthy chapter on hunting in the Russian Empire by Elim Demidoff for tur, chamois, and bharal in the Caucasus, and with notes of Ovis poli and Ovis ammon in the southern mountainous regions. The rest of Europe is treated on a country-by-country basis with information on hunting chamois in Austria, Hungary, Italy, Germany, and Spain; ibex in Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Italy; and mouflon in Sardinia. Of actual hunting experiences, Pablo Larios describes his hunt after ibex in Spain’s Sierra Blanca of Ojén. Aflalo, F. G., ed. The Sportsman’s Book for India. London: Horace Marshall & Son, 1904. Royal 8vo., xvi + errata slip + 567 pp., color folding map, frontis, illustrated and photo plates, 3 map plates. Dark green cloth with pictorial gilt stamping. Aflalo collected a variety of veteran sportsmen as contributors to this compendium of Indian field sports. Most the big- game hunting information is presented in terms of routes to take, equipment, best areas to hunt, and seasons as opposed to actual hunting experiences. In his chapter on hunting in the Himalayas and Kashmir, Captain A. G. Arbuthnot does include his ibex hunting adventures in Baltistan. Aitken, Russell Barnett. Great Game Animals of the World. New York: The Macmillan Co., no date [1968]. Square 4to., 191 2 Adair to Axbey pp., color and b&w photos. Gold-colored cloth, dust jacket. British edition published by Crescent Press (London), 1969. This is more of a picture book of game animals with some very good photos of hunters and their trophies including a variety of wild sheep and goats. There is a one-page description of Marco Polo sheep, and a one-page description of chamois but without hunting episodes. Ajax. “Good Hunting!” or What to Do on Shikar and How to Do It. Calcutta: Thacker & Spink, no date [1913]. 12mo., xiv + 62 pp., tipped-in photo frontis. Softcover. The anonymous author provides advice for hunters in India based on his own experiences. He includes brief episodes of his hunts for tahr and serow, with additional notes on how to stalk markhor, ibex, and wild sheep. Akroyd, Charles H. A Veteran Sportsman’s Diary. Inverness: Robert Carruthers & Sons, 1926. Royal 8vo., 337 pp., frontis. Blue cloth, gilt stamping. Akroyd recounts his adventures hunting and fishing in a variety of European, British, and North American locales. Included are descriptions of two trips to the Rockies with successful hunts in the Lillooet region after mountain goat on the first journey, and a successful stalk of bighorns in the Similkameen area in the second. Allen, Dr. William A. Adventures with Indians and Big Game, or Twenty Years in the Rockies. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co., 1903. 8vo., 302 pp., frontis, photo plates. Brown half-leather, gilt stamping, with marbled paper-covered boards. Allen, a dentist, provides numerous adventures he experienced while in the Rockies and on the Great Plains. Among the game he bagged were bighorn sheep near the Bear Tooth Range in Montana and mountain goat in Dearborn Canyon. Allison, Col[in], ed. The Trophy Hunters. Action-Packed Tales of Hunting Big Game Trophies around the World—1860 to Today. Ultimo, 3 Bibliography of Hunting the Wild Sheep and Goats of the World Australia: Murray Books, 1979. Crown 4to., 240 pp., frontis, color and b&w photos. Green cloth, dust jacket An anthology of stories with chapters on hunting bezoar goat in the Kirthar Range, Pakistan, by Elgin Gates; Herb Klein’s stalk of Marco Polo sheep in Hunza, Pakistan; a hunt for Stone sheep in northern British Columbia by Raymond Speer; and a successful hunt for chamois and tahr in New Zealand by Keith Severinsen. Alward, Arnold (with Bill Quimby). To Heck with It, I’m Going Hunting: My First Eighteen Years as an International Big- Game Hunter. Long Beach: Safari Press, 2003. 8vo., 316 pp., color photo plates. Burgundy cloth with pictorial gilt stamping, slipcase. Limited edition of 1,000 numbered and signed copies. Alward’s numerous hunting adventures took him to Mon- golia’s Upper Altai where he collected Altai and Gobi argali; the Pamirs after Marco Polo sheep; desert bighorn in Baja California; Dall sheep in Alaska; and bighorn and Stone sheep in the Rockies. Anderson, Robert M. Great Rams and Great Ram Hunters. Dallas: Collector’s Covey, 1994. 4to., 255 pp., photos and illustrations. Green cloth with gilt stamping, dust jacket. This is a chronicle of North American sheep hunting and sheep hunters stretching over eighty years. Heavy on photo- graphs with lengthy captions. Anderson, Robert M. Wind, Dust, and Snow: Great Rams of Asia. Dallas: Collector’s Covey, 1998. 4to.,
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