Henry Astbury Leveson Books

Henry Astbury Leveson (1828 - 1875) was a renowned British sportsman and big game hunter.

Henry Astbury Leveson Shooting A Charging Asian Black Bear

Wrinkles: Or Hints To Sportsmen And Travellers On Dress, Equipment And Camp Life by Henry Astbury Leveson (1874)

The Forest And The Field by Henry Astbury Leveson (1867)

Sport In Many Lands by Henry Astbury Leveson 'Old Shekarry' (1877) includes five chapters on hunting experiences in the Rocky Mountains in the 1860s, much on Indians and on the destruction of the buffalo herds. Much on sheep, bear, moose, goat, deer, antelope and buffalo in America, plus all the African big game. A 2 volume edition was published in 1890.

The Camp Fire by Henry Astbury Leveson (1868)

Hunting Grounds Of The Old World by Henry Astbury Leveson (1860). Big game hunting in the Deccan, southern India, the mountain ranges, the Himalayas and Circassia. Much on tiger hunting, elephant, bear, ibex, sheep and more.

Books About Henry Astbury Leveson

James Greenwood

Wild Sports Of The World: A Boy's Book Of Natural History And Adventure by James Greenwood (1862) was intended to "strengthen the spirit and inform the mind of the young reader." A fine mid-nineteenth century British adventure book which ontains chapters such as 'How the Lion is Hunted', 'Habitat of the Rhinoceros' and 'The War Elephant of the Ancients'. There are portraits of celebrated hunters, including Henry Astbury Leveson, from original photographs and maps showing the habitats of animals and plants all over the world.