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About the author:Agnes Elsie Diana Herbert was a writer and big game hunter. The daughter of James Bateman Thorpe, she was born Agnes Elsie Diana Thorpe on the Isle of Man and grew up there. She was privately tutored. With a cousin, she visited the Canadian Rockies, where the two women taught Chinese kitchen workers in mining camps how to cook English-style food; they also tried hunting. In 1906, the two cousins left on a hunting trip to Somaliland. She first married a Mr. Herbert and became a widow some time later. In 1913, she married Archibald Thomas Stewart, a commander in the Royal Navy. Herbert was a member of the Society of Women Journalists, also serving as its vice-chair and later vice-president. She was editor of the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook from 1922 to 1929. In 1931, Herbert was named an officer of the Order of the British Empire.Works: Two Dianas in Somaliland: The Record of a Shooting Trip (1908) Isle of Man (1909) Two Dianas in Alaska (1909) The Life Story of a Lion (1911) Casuals in the Caucasus: The Diary of a Sporting Holiday (1912) The Moose (1913) The Elephant (1917) Northumberland. Painted by A. Heaton Cooper. Described by Agnes Herbert (1923) Korea (1924)This book published in 1912 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.

Excerpt from Casuals in the Caucasus: The Diary of a Sporting HolidayThinking on the frosty Caucasus. Richard II.Will you go with me? Much Ado About Nothing.Met together to rehearse a play. Midsummer Night's Dream.At the gate of Europe is an alluring, beckoning, magical country, where the centuries mingle in confused contrast, and Nature plays protagonist to herself.The Caucasus.Does not the very name breathe the weird suggestive mystery of a primitive environment, the rough-hewn fascination of barbaric peoples?Nowhere else in all the world can be found so myriad-minded and romantic a land, so many-sided, so rich in colours and fertile in forms.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Lang:- eng, Pages 426. Reprinted in 2015 with the help of original edition published long back[1912]. This book is in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, there may be some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. (Customisation is possible). Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions.Original Title:- Casuals in the Caucasus; the diary of a sporting holiday 1912 [Hardcover] Author:- Herbert, Agnes

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Excerpt from Casuals in the Caucasus: The Diary of a Sporting HolidayAT the gate Of Europe is an alluring, beckoning, magical country, Where the centuries mingle in confused con trast, and Nature plays protagonist to herself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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