Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Trip to Pilawin: The Deer-Park of Count Joseph Potocki in Volhynia, Russia
Visiting the famous park of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn, and the wonders there seen enlarged my ideas with regard to Pilawin. Without any thought of rivalling the marvels of Woburn, I accordingly decided to add to the Pilawin park such of the deer of North America and Asia as appeared likely to thrive in Russia. Consequently I lost no time in obtaining specimens of American and Siberian wapiti, as well as of Caucasian red deer and the Manchurian Dybowski's deer, after which I continued to add other new inhabitants to the park as opportunity occurred. In 1905.
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