Ki - Yu: a Story of Panthers and Vancouv

by Roderick L. Haig-Brown

Originally published in 1934. A fascinating and exciting tale of panthers and early panther hunting on Vancouver Island. Cecil Smith was the greatest of all panther hunters. He killed an average of a dozen panthers a year. It was his experience and adventures over forty years that was the inspiration for this book. Every detail of panthers and their ways is strictly accurate. Text illustrations. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Read Country Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1934

About the author

Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown (February 21, 1908 — October 9, 1976) was a Canadian writer and conservationist, who is acclaimed internationally for his writing on fly fishing.

Reviews

[Lone Wolf · Rating 1 out of 5]

The “panther” of the title is a puma who is relentlessly pursued by a human hunter. Whilst “Florida panther” is one of the many names for the puma, “panther” on its own refers to a melanistic leopard (also used for melanistic jaguars, these days). Factual errors are abundant in the book – the way pumas kill their prey is portrayed incorrectly, and wolves killing and eating members of their own pack is especially ridiculous. In addition, the edition I read was illustrated with pictures that resembled caracals far more than pumas.

[Kamakana · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.??? childhood: this is a book i read first when about 11 or 12. i had not read jack london, but had read other work by naturalist haig-brown. this is a sentimental favorite to such extent i bought a used book copy of it i found through the web. to be following so closely, to be inside, this animal, was one of my first memories of the particular pleasures of lit...

[Michal · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked how peaceful the lion's life was, it seemed more exciting than it actually was. It was a science book about mountain lions' lives, put into a really good book