Indo-China A Sportsman's Opportunity

Published by Privately published by the family, Plymouth, 1933. 1st and only edition. 157pps. illustrated with b/w photo frontispiece plus 12 other plates; introduction by R.G. Burton. Ink on the free end paper O H Channer & Gen. R G Burton's copy. October 1934 . Good two-tone green cloth covers. Gilt titles to spine. Spine heads a little worn. Some scattered foxing internally. Scarce hunting in Vietnam for tiger, gaur, deer and panther.

Reginald George Burton (1864 – 2 February 1951) was a British Indian army officer, hunter-naturalist and writer of books on sports hunting and military history.

Burton was the fourth son of General Edmond Francis Burton of the Madras Staff Corps and his wife Ellen Georgina. He too joined the army and served in Jamaica with the 1st West India Regiment from 1884 and moved to the Bengal Staff Corps and then the 1st Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent in 1889. He worked at Simla in the headquarters and then commanded the 94th Russell's Infantry in 1909. He served at Gallipoli in 1915 and was invalided, serving at Wellington in the Nilgiris. While in India, he followed his father's interest in sport hunting. He was a member of the Bombay Natural History Society and wrote several books on hunting including Tropics and Snows (1898), Sport and Wild Life in the Deccan (1928), A Book of man-eaters (1931), The Book of the Tiger (1933) and The Tiger Hunters (1936).