Thursday, February 6, 2014
We have left the Alps behind us-a long climb, but finished at last- and now here we are suddenly transplanted to that beautiful garden called Kashmir- the Indian Italy, a land breathing of Romeo and Juliet.
We have made our entry at Baramula, where the Jhelum, the Hydaspes of the ancients, leaves its silent, grassy banks to fall headlong into the plains of the Punjab, becoming ever wilder as it leaps from rock to rock. How quietly it flows here through the valley between its smiling banks! A feeling of warmth and peace steals over our senses. Sweet-scented carpets literally spread themselves out before our astonished eyes- the whole valley is one moving mass of bursting bloom in the June haze. What a sparkling, laughing, enticing world! Nature here draws her resources from the deep wells of life’s eternity.
These lines are written in the hope that, after their perusal, the visitor to “The Vale”, or to other parts of the Himalayas, may not feel himself so entirely at the mercy of his Shikari, who too often consults his own comfort and visits spots where he and the villagers can play into one another’s hands and neglects localities where the best bags are to be obtained.
The object, therefore, is not to write a book of adventures, but to give accurate measurements, the names of the best shooting grounds and such hints as are likely to prove useful to the inexperienced traveler in the hills and ravines of the Himalayas and amongst the sterile mountains and plains of Ladakh and Middle Thibet.
Book: The Markhor: Sport in Kashmir
Author: Count Hans Von Koenigsmarck
ISBN: 978-81-8339-206-8
Language: English
Price: INR 1295/ USD $ 29 (Shipping/Courier Charges Extra)
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