The Big Game of Central and Western China

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Excerpt from The Big Game of Central and Western China: Being an Account of a Journey From Shanghai to London Overland Across the Gobi Desert Early in the spring of 1911 Mr. George Fenwick Owen invited me to accompany him on an expedition into the interior of China, his aim being to secure specimens of the takin (Budorcas bedfordi), a rare animal about which little is on record, a collection of small mammals for the British Museum, and any other species of big game which we might chance to encounter. We accordingly left Liverpool in May that same year, and arrived back in England in April 1912. In the following pages I have endeavoured to convey to those who do me the honour of reading this book some idea of a country which has been but seldom visited by sportsmen, and the strange people and still stranger animals to be found there. Our original intention, having secured the takin, was to hunt in the mountains in Koko Nor, and to return home through Szechuan and the valley of the Yangtse-kiang. This idea we were reluctantly compelled, owing to the outbreak of the Revolution, to abandon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.