This book describes the keen and zestful story of a long and hazardous tiger hunt. The trail led the author to many strange corners of Asia which were the homes of interesting tribes and delightful tiger legends, and brought much thrilling adventures. This book contains some interesting impressions of two countries India and Africa which are off the ordinary tourist track in 1920s. This book also discusses the curious phenomenon in tribal communities. It covers the descriptive cultures and rituals of the tribal communities which the author came across during her trail for the tiger hunt.
Mary Hastings Bradley was born in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Smith College in 1905 where she majored in English. After graduation she travelled to Egypt with a cousin and was inspired to write The Palace of Darkened Windows and The Fortieth Door detailing the life of the veiled and secluded women of Egypt. Both of these stories were later made into film further giving audience to Bradley writings. While doing research for her book The Favor of Kings in Oxford she met her husband Herbert Bradley. Herbert Bradley was a lawyer; big game hunter, traveller and explorer who later helped found the Brookfield Zoo. They were married in 1910 and five years later they had a daughter Alice. In 1938 her story The Life of the Party was chosen to appear in The O. Henry Prize Stories anthology. Bradley was a prolific author of mysteries, travel books, short fiction and novels most notably the Old Chicago series of historical novels. She was frequently asked to lecture on her travels and was inducted into the Society of Women Geographers, whose membership included Amelia Earhart, Margaret Mead, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Bradley was one of the few female presidents of the Society of Midland Authors as well as an active club woman in Chicago. It was Bradley death in late October 1976 that inadvertently revealed that her daughter Alice B. Sheldon was prominent science fiction writer James Tiptree, Jr.
