ABSTRACT
Reviewing Lord Valentia’s 1809 India and Asia travelogue, the Eclectic Review complained that the aristocrat traveller had not looked for dangers and exciting things during his sojourn in the Orient (EcR 5 [1809]: 690-92). Such a complaint would not have arisen in the latter half of the nineteenth century, when an entire genre grew up around the adventures of Englishmen and women in India: the sporting or shikar (hunting) memoir.
