2015 Long Beach, 1st edn, 475pp, drawings, ltd to 1000 copies, numbered, signed, slipcased copies. Finally, the long awaited and much anticipated "Rhino" book is available now. Safari Press has agreed to produce this book with James Rikhoff, the publisher of Amwell Press. The book was produced to match the physical appearance of the other four books in the Amwell series (elephant, buffalo, leopard, and lion), thus completing the matching set with similar binding, paper, and slipcase. As before, Jim Rikhoff has done a special commentary, and Guy Coheleach has created his magnificent color illustrations as well as his incredible pencil drawings of rhinos. The African rhino has sadly taken a huge hit in recent times, but there was a time, which extended well past World War II, when rhinos were incredibly plentiful. In fact, when Theodore Roosevelt proceeded from Nairobi on foot into the interior of Kenya in 1909, rhinos had to be shot repeatedly because they attacked the caravan and knocked over and sometimes even killed the porters. Later, John Hunter was paid to clear out hundreds of black rhinos from the Makueni district in Kenya in the 1930s. Imagine being paid to shoot rhinos, while currently, permits for the same animal go for hundreds of thousands of dollars! As with the other books in this series, the book is divided into four parts. The first section begins with the very earliest written records (in the English language) of rhino encounters and then continues through three additional sections with progressively more modern rhino-hunting stories. Some of the greatest names in the annals of African big-game hunting grace the pages of this book: Henry Stanley, A. Blayney Percival, Theodore Roosevelt, Fred Kirby, Jack O'Connor, John Batten, Elgin Gates, Edison Marshall, Bunny Allen, Dean Witter, Soren Lindstrom, Finn Aagaard, and many others.

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HUNTING THE AFRICAN RHINO

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Safari Press & Amwell

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1st Edition

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Fine in fine slipcase.

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World Wide Hunting Books, from the Publisher of Sports Afield magazine, sells fine antiquarian big-game hunting and exploration & hunting books on Asia, North America, Europe and Africa. World Wide Hunting Books? stock is mainly antiquarian first editions that are in above-average condition; we have the collector in mind when we buy our books. If you are looking for a rare first edition on elephant hunting or a book on an expedition after wild sheep in Asia that took place over a century ago, you will likely find it in our extensive stock. We have books on tiger, bear, wild sheep, elk, ibex, buffalo, rhino, elephant, and lion hunting. We also have early exploration and hunting accounts from North America, Asia, and Africa. If it is a book on big-game hunting and if it is out of print, it is likely we have handled the book in our thirty-five-plus years of being in this field. We maintain a detailed, proprietary database with seven thousand-plus entries with bibliographical notes that helps us keep track of the thousands of hunting books ever printed. We work with small collectors as well as huge university libraries. We are proud to have helped some of our customers create collections that contain more than one thousand books, but we are equally happy to provide you with that one special book you have always longed for or want to present as a gift.

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