Bertram B. Osmaston, CIE, known as "B.B." to his contemporaries, served
in the Indian Forest Service from 1888 to 1923, including periods in the Andaman
Islands, in Burma and as President of the Forest Research Institute. He was an
active and gifted naturalist, his greatest interest being in birds of which he had an
unsurpassed knowledge, many of his collections being now in national museums.
He was a careful observer and diarist, and these edited extracts r^ount many of
his encounters with birds, animals and people, together with varied adventures,
some amusing, others exciting, dangerous or occasionally macabre. Only five
months after his arrival in India, never having seen a tiger outside a zoo, he shot
a maneating tigress which had stalked and mauled his companion before charging
B.B. himself.
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Author
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Bertram Beresford Osmaston
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Published
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1981
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Pages
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336
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Publisher
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The Author
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ISBN
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095180393X
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Availability
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Abebooks
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