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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Hong Kong, 1954. The British colony was not yet ready to hear about a Eurasian policeman having an affair with the police commissioner's daughter. Simon Lee tasted swift punishment. He was banished to the far tip of a wild and distant island a stone's throw from Chinese waters - to Tai O, the ancient trading post where fishermen, salt-farmers and refugees were thrown together with spies, pirates and Triads. Dolphins swam the waters, eagles fished the sea, and some still believed that a tiger prowled the hills at night. It was a place haunted by history, where corpses had floated in the bay when Japanese troops occupied the police station, and everybody had a secret about what they did during the war. Life was unpredictable for the band of misfits that staffed Tai O Police Station. But when a stranger was murdered on a beach, accused of being a Communist spy, Lee found himself on a collision course with his masters in Central. Who had the dead man been working for? What did the secret agents know? Why was Central so eager to brush the execution aside? And who or what really was the 'tiger'.…

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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 160 pages. 5.08x0.34x7.80 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Imperial Tiger Hunters: An Introduction to the Tujia People of China This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: Prologue: the dream of the hunter. 1. The house by the stream. 2. The school near the sea. 3. West Indian episode. 4. Forest and mountain. 5. The old cantonment. 6. Into the wilds. 7. The shrine on the hill. 8. The first tiger hunt. 9. Voices in the forest. 10. A mixed bag. 11. The empire of nature. 12. Destroyers in the forest. 13. The great Ambari tiger. 14. The monarch of the glen. 15. Safety last! 16. Aboriginal gonds. 17. The empire of night. 18. Tracks of death. "The Tiger Hunters by Reginold George Burton (b. 1864) makes fascinating reading. The hair raising accounts of the writer s adventures in the wild in Indian jungles, keep the reader impulsively absorbed in the book. His encounters with beasts have heart throbbing and bewildering. The author was a hunter of tigers instinctively and often risked his life. Besides hunting episodes, the book is replete with events of author s involvement with India, where he passed his early boyhood and later, prime of youth. The book contains the real-life experiences and events of the author s life with minute details of observations and accurate memories of his remote past. In the whole book, there is not a tinge of disgust or a version for the native inhabitant s way of life or the rituals as can often be inferred from the writings of the English writers of the Raj days. Burton is nostalgic about his boyhood days in India where he studied and sailed to England after his father passed away during an encounter with the brigands at the head of his regiment. He returned to India with great eagerness and nostalgia on a posting in the Royal Army. The book ranks among the best of its kind. It s more than a book on hunting. It reveals of British Army Officer s whole perception about the country. .Its people, its customs, weather and seasons with good memories of his Indian associates, co-hunters and faithful servants. Burton s account of his days in the West Indies provides an added flavour to his Indian sage. It would be of great interest to readers of the writings of Caribbean writers like V.S. Naipaul today." (jacket).…

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