Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sport in the Alps in the Past and Present, an Account of the Chase of the Chamois, Red-Deer, Bouquetin, Roe-Deer, Capercaillie, and Black-Cock
To the wish to fill in some measure this void in sporting literature, must be ascribed the present attempt to do justice to a subject with which a life-long acquaintance has made me familiar.
This attempt of mine, as I may at once confess, leaves almost unnoticed the very country which to the climbing fraternity, as well as to the sight-seer, possesses the greatest attraction, Switzerland. There are two reasons why I have confined myself to the Central and Eastern Alps, deal ing with the Western only in so far as is concerned that minute portion situated on the Southern or Italian face, which is the only remaining refuge of the Bouquetin.
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