Blue Tiger

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Harry R. Caldwell
ISBN 1-930585-38-1
Retail $14.95 (USD)
240 pp. / Paperback

Blue Tiger:

Harry R. Caldwell was a Methodist missionary to southern China. In Blue Tiger, first published in 1924, he writes about several of his adventures in that country. An avid hunter and amateur naturalist, he notes the challenges of hunting big-game like serow, big-horn, wapiti, boar, and tiger. He describes how his hunting of man-killing tigers paved the way for effective mission work, and spends several chapters discussing the political landmines of trying to affect peace between soldiers and bandits in an effort to spare the villagers caught between their fighting. Of particular interest, Caldwell offers the description of a fascinating creature, a blue-morph tiger, that he attempted to capture for science. Only a few blue tigers have been reported in the archives of cryptozoology.

This is a non-facsimile reprint. An additional appendix has been added, in which Roy Chapman Andrews describes the hunt for the blue tiger from his perspective.

Sample chapters:

Chapter 4: The Tiger at Home

Chapter 8: My Friend the Serow

Chapter 9: Stalking the Big Horn

Chapter 11: Southern China Wild Boar

Chapter 13: Some Bandit Chiefs