Hunter's Moon

Published by Macmillan and Co., London, 1933. 1st edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 267pp plus publisher's adverts. Near fine blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in a near fine and rare dust jacket. Internally fine with black and white ills. End-papers maps showing India, Burma and the Malay Peninsula.

Major Handley describes two decades of big game hunting and observations of his surroundings, in India, Burma, the Mergui archipelago, and Malaya. "The knowledge and experience of twenty-two years are [here]; and the yearning desire to express them. But the ink was wrung from my infacile pen, even as the blood drops from the brow of a martyr. .

I have striven to depart from the normal account of indiscriminate slaughter, and the incredibly dismal unfolding of the correct paraphernalia, and methods, necessary to outwit the jungle denizens. Striven to interest not only the tyro - eager to absorb jungle lore - but to inflame the average, out-door-loving reader with the glamour and romance of these vast green silences."