The SportsmanS Book For India (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt From The SportsmanS Book For India And If The India Of To-Day May Still Claim To Be Reckoned Very High Among The Sporting Countries Of The World, Its Opportunities Forty Years Ago Must Have Been Fourfold. Swift, Who, With All His Virtues, Could Scarcely Have Been A Joyous Playmate, Was Wont To De Scribe The Majority Of Our Sports And Games As Imitations Of Fighting; And It Is Certain That The Greater Part Of Indian Sport, As It Is Understood To-Day, Is Made Up Of Shooting, Fishing, Hunting And Polo, In All Of Which Some Faint Semblance Of Warfare Might Perhaps Be Traced By An Essayist Skilled In Such Exercises. The Present Hand Book, However, Ranges Over An Even Wider Field Of Recreation, Taking Cognisance Of All Manner Of Minor Sports, Games And Physical Exercises On Land And Water Which Help Not Only To Redeem The Monotony Of Station Life, But Also To Fortify The European Constitution Against The Ravages Of A Climate For Which Nature Never Intended It. About The Publisher Forgotten Books Publishes Hundreds Of Thousands Of Rare And Classic Books. Find More At 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.