WANDERINGS AND
MEMORIES
J. G. MILLAIS
LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
1919
First edition.
A real potpourri of sporting adventures worldwide, this volume includes a chapter on the great elephant hunter, Alfred Neumann. Millais also relates a 1913 hunting trip to British East Africa where he bagged impala, wildebeest, and lion. (Czech, Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books.)
INTRODUCTION
“This book describes incidents of my own life and in the life of other I have known; travels in search of big game and Natural History; letters of strange interest by all kinds of men living in many lands; sidelights on the Great War, in fact a conglomeration of anything in life that might prove of interest to men and women who move about and do things a little out of the ordinary ruck. They have been set down, rather as the spirit moved me to write, and if somewhat disjointed I trust they will appeal to other rovers like myself. If variety is the spice of life, perhaps even such tales as these may find their readers amongst those who have followed the open road.” J.G. MILLAIS
CONTENTS
WHEN I WAS YOUNG
SOME EARLY EXPERIENCES IN SHOOTING
TRAVELS IN ICELAND 1889
ARTHUR NEUMANN, PIONEER AND ELEPHANT HUNTER
SCOTTISH SALMON FISHING
ONE AFRICAN DAY, 1913
THE LOFODEN ISLANDS, 1915
AN ARCTIC RESIDENCE, 1916
FEALAR, 1918 -HIGHLAND DEER STALKING
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
AN UNEXPECTED MEETING
TWO ANGRY LIONESSES: AMALA RIVER
THE MOST NORTHERLY POINT IN EUROPE
THE BEST-HORNED STAG SELDOM GETS THE HIND
STUDY OF A WAPITI
BREAKING IN AND BRANDING A WILD BRONCO
A GROUSE DRIVE IN SCOTLAND
BIRD LIFE ON THE COAST OF ICELAND
CROSSING THE FJORD AT AKUYRERI
30 TROUT CAUGHT IN THE SKALFANDI LAXA, 175 LBS
ICELAND PONIES
A DAY’S SPORT AT FISKIVATN ( THE LARGEST TROUT 10 LBS)
A FAROE ISLANDER IN NATIONAL COSTUME
A GOOD DAY’S SALMON FISHING ON THE MURTHEY WATER, RIVER TAY
ALASKAN MOOSE HEAD ORNAMENTED WITH HUNTING SCENES
The Edwardian sporting artist, John Guille Millais, the son of the pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. J.G. Millais was born in 1865 and was a soldier, traveller, hunter and naturalist. He travelled widely and produced several books, largely on game and gamebirds and also “The life of F. C. Selous”.
23cm x 15cm. xii + 298 pages. Frontis + 14 plates.
Very good condition. Title dulled on the spine. A few spots of foxing to the page edges, pages slightly age toned, otherwise clean, binding sound, all plates present.
