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Generally regarded as the most comprehensive title ever on African hunting. There are 380 first-class black-and-white pictures on the 522 pages, with fifty-two chapters focusing on twenty different African countries. The scope of this book is more exhaustive than ANY other book on African hunting. Thrilling stories of the most dangerous and exotic animals of the Dark Continent that will keep you enthralled from the first to the last page. Covers absolutely ALL African game animals. The most enduring book ever printed on African hunting. Demand has remained steady for twenty years, with good reason: IT IS THE BEST! Over 12,500 copies sold to date!
Generally regarded as the most comprehensive title ever on African hunting. There are 380 first-class black-and-white pictures on the 522 pages, with fifty-two chapters focusing on twenty different African countries. The scope of this book is more exhaustive than ANY other book on African hunting. Thrilling stories of the most dangerous and exotic animals of the Dark Continent that will keep you enthralled from the first to the last page. Covers absolutely ALL African game animals. The most enduring book ever printed on African hunting. Demand has remained steady for twenty years, with good reason: IT IS THE BEST! Over 12,500 copies sold to date!
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- PublisherCassell
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 030429666X
- ISBN 13 9780304296668
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages522
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AFRICAN HUNTER. By James Mellon and other authorities.
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Cassell & Company. London. 1975.
(1975)
ISBN 10: 030429666X
ISBN 13: 9780304296668
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Book Description (Hardcover, 1975). 1975 1st edition. Large 4to (232 x 310mm). Ppxx,522. B/w photographs, illustrations and maps throughout, bibliography. Silver and red titles to black boards and spine. Some use, slight soiling to page edges. Good-plus in quite used dust-wrapper. A country-by-country and species-by-species survey of African game and hunting. The most comprehensive and authoritative modern book on the subject. Chapters include: Kenya: General survey; The elephant country; Masailand; The Northern Region; The Mountain forests; In the old days. Tanzania: General survey; A Greater Kudu hunt; How Edmund sunde shot his elephant. Uganda: General survey; Huntin Sitatunga on the Sesse Islands in Lake Victoria. How to arrange a safari. The element of danger: An elephant's revenge; A brush with a Rhino; the Buffalo who had eleven lives; A double Lion mauling; My first Leopard mauling. Sporting arms and their use in Africa. Ethiopia: General survey; The Abyssinian Ibex or Walia; The Mountain Nyala; Quest for the Nile or Mrs Gray's Lechwe. Somalia: Beira Antelope, Dibatag, Speke's Gazelle, Somali Soemmering's Gazelle, Hunter's Hartebeest, Pelzeln's Gazelle, and other game. The skinning, field care, and shipment of game trophies, by Rowland Ward, Ltd (London). Sudan: General survey; Hunting Nubian Ibex in the Red Sea Hills; Staliking Nile Lechwe at Lake Nyubor. Central Africa: General survey; A Bongo hunt in Ubangi; Hunting the Giant Eland; A Barbary Sheep hunt in the Ennedi Mountains of Chad; Hunting in the Sahara on foot, and from a safari car; Into the recesses of the Sahara. West Africa: General survey; Gabon; Liberia. North Africa. South Africa: Vaal Rehbok, Blesbok, bontebok, White-tailed Gnu, and other game. South-West Africa, Gemsbuck, Greater Kudu, and other game. Angola: General survey; Shooting the world-record Giant Sable Antelope. Mozambique: General survery; Nyala. Botswana: General survey; A shoot in the Okavango region; Hunting Gemsbuck in the Kalahari Desert. Zambia: General survey; Hunting Kafue Flats Lechwe and Black Lechewe. Rhodesia. Zaire: General survey; An Okapi hunt in the Ituri Forest; African game animals. Bibliography. Numerous contributors. . Seller Inventory # 60368
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