L'auteur, ont observé les Oiseaux de plus près; et l'etude de leur organisation, jointe à la connaissance de leurs moeurs, est venue ajouter à cette dernière un attrait de plus, en nous montrant dans ses plus intimes détails la dépendance qui lie la foction avec l'instrument chargé de l'exécuter.
The author got the mission after the eruption of the volcano Krakatau from the Dutch-Indian government to go to the volcano and conduct a geological survey. This Publication is the result of this survey and describes the volcano before its erution, the cause of the eruption and everything that happened.
The authors primary object was to obtain photographs of Elephants, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Buffalo and Giraffe and show them in their natural setting. Additionally, he describes how he got these photographs.
Between the tenth and first edition of the Sportsman's Handbook thirty years have elapsed. According to the author the world has opened up and big changes have occured in respect to opportunities and localities for big-game shooting. Thus the text has been revised and expanded.
The author hoped that trough making known more widely the loss that the British avi-fauna has sustained and the possibility of the reparation of at least a part of it, something may be done towards hastening forward that time when the people shall at least cease to banish the rare native birds, and instead prepare the way for rehabilitation of those that have already been lost.
