Published by Burke Publishing Company, Ltd., London, 1956.
Very Good plus yellow cloth in a very good and scarce pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with b&w photographs, map frontis. The Exploits of George Yankovsky East Asia's Mighty Hunter. Hunting tiger, bear, wild boar, panther,
George (Yuri or Jerzy) Mihailovich Yankovsky (Russian: Юрий Михайлович Янковский) (5 June 1879 - 13 June 1956) was a Russian tiger hunter in Manchuria, a son of the Polish settler in the Russian Far East, Michał Jankowski. The family moved from Sidemi, in Primorsky Krai across the border into northern Korea in 1922. After the Soviets entered northern Korea, he was arrested in 1945 and sent to the Siberian Gulags where he was able to meet his incarcerated father and died just weeks before he was to be released. He was known as one of the most prolific hunters of Amur Tigers and wrote a book in 1940 called Полвека охоты на тигров [Half a Century of Tiger Hunting]. His life became better known to the English speaking world after a biography, The Tiger's Claw, was written in 1956 by the English actress in Korea, Mary Linley Taylor.
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