"My Big-Game Hunting Diary: From India And The Himalayas" 1937 APPONYI, Count Henrik

APPONYI, Count Henrik

[254] pp

Selwyn & Blount

1937

9 1/2" x 6 1/2"

*foxing condition noted*

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"A Hungarian aristocrat, Apponyi died just before publication of this book. His trip to India in 1930 included a driven tiger shoot near Hyderabad, shooting blackbucks from a car with the Maharajah of Bikaner (hardly sporting!) and more tiger hunting in the Terai. His best chapters, however, describe his climbs and hunts in the Khyber highlands where trophy ibex, markhor, and urial were collected. On the frontiers of Tibet, he bagged Ovis ammon, burhel and Tibetan antelope. Some exceptionally good photos complement the text"

"Henrik started a diplomatic career, in Berlin (1912–1913) and Istanbul (1913–1914), but that was cut short by World War I and the end of the Habsburg monarchy. He relocated to Oponice in 1918 and dedicated his life to adventurous traveling, particularly in Sudan (1924) and India and Tibet (1930). His travel notes were published in London in 1937 under the title My big-game hunting diary from India and the Himalayas, with a foreword by the Viscount Halifax whom Henrik had met while in India. The book came out after the deaths of both his mother Marguerite, who had promoted the publication project, and that of Henrik himself. He died in Berlin in unclear circumstances.