The Rifle And Hound In Ceylon

The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon is a book by Sir Samuel White Baker detailing hunting, particularly elephants, in Sri Lanka.

The Rifle And Hound In Ceylon
The front (first) page of the first edition
AuthorSir Samuel White Baker
LanguageEnglish
Subject
  • Sri Lanka - Description and travel
  • Hunting - Sri Lanka
  • Hunting
Set inSri Lanka
PublisherLondon : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London : Spottiswoodes and Shaw
Publication date
1854
Pages409
OCLC655366268
799.295493
LC ClassDS489.B17
Websitehttp://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3231

It was first published in 1854, with a second edition published in 1857, and a third in 1874.[1]

Historical impact

Sir Baker's popular account of his exploits fixed Ceylon as a place for elephant hunting for his audience.[2]. Baker considered the elephant the 'king of beasts' rather than the lion or tiger and was the most noble adversary for hunters.[2] Due to ongoing hunting and changing land use the elephant population in Sri Lanka dramatically declined.[2]

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References
  1. "WorldCat". Retrieved August 12, 2020.
  2. Lorimer & Whatmore 2009, p. 669.

Bibliography

Lorimer, Jamie; Whatmore, Sarah (2009). "After the 'king of beasts': Samuel Baker and the embodied historical geographies of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon" (PDF). Journal of Historical Geography. Elsevier: 668–689. doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2008.11.002.

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