| PAGE | |
| A Forest Scene | Frontispiece |
| The Big Lake in Pilawin | 3 |
| European Bison in the Open | 5 |
| The Main Entrance of the Antoniny Palace | 9 |
| Bears killed by the Count | 13 |
| Wapiti Stags trying for the Mastery | 15 |
| American Bison in the Snow | 17 |
| Wapiti in the Snow | 19 |
| Wapiti calling | 23 |
| European and American Bison in the Pilawin Park | 27 |
| A Typical Pilawin Scene | 30 |
| Map of Pilawin | 31 |
| The Shooting-Lodge at Pilawin | 33 |
| Ourselves starting from the Shooting-Lodge | 35 |
| Young Elk and Wapiti | 39 |
| Wapiti in Autumn | 43 |
| Wolf killed near Antoniny in 1907 | 46 |
| The Pilawin Beaver | 47 |
| Elk in Winter | 51 |
| An Asiatic (? Sayansk) Wapiti | 56 |
| Wapiti Stag and Hind | 57 |
| The Dead Bison | 60 |
| Wapiti Stag reposing | 61 |
| A Bull Elk | 65 |
| The Pekin or Dybowski Bucks | 67 |
| Elk Calves in the Snow | 68 |
| The American Bison | 70 |
| The European Bison Herd | 71 |
| American Bison by the Stage in the Forest | 73 |
| Wapiti by the Lake | 77 |
| A Bull Elk | 79 |
| Wapiti in Winter | 82 |
| One of the Best Wapiti, with the Antlers in Velvet | 87 |
| A View in Pilawin with Asiatic Wapiti in the Foreground | 91 |
| Caucasian Red Deer | 92 |
| A Pekin or Dybowski Stag | 97 |
| A Big Wapiti | 99 |
| European Bison in a Forest Ride | 103 |
| A Good Wapiti | 111 |
| A Wapiti at Gaze | 115 |
A Trip to Pilawin, the Deer-park of Count Joseph Potocki in Volhynia, Russia
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About This Book
An extended travel and natural-history account describes a private forest preserve where the owner has deliberately reintroduced and bred elk alongside various deer, bison, and other mammals. The narrative combines practical travel notes on reaching the estate with close observations of animals, their behavior, wintering and breeding, and descriptions of park management, enclosures, and shooting lodges. Photographs, sketches, and a map accompany detailed portrayals of landscapes, herds, and hunting episodes, while reflections on the challenges and aims of maintaining free-ranging big game and the logistical work of importing and acclimatizing species run throughout.