GAME ANIMALS OF THE SUDAN: Their Habits and Distribution

1 volume. "Sudan Bookshop Khartoum " 1934.

Previous owner Gavin Burton Stewart gifted the volume to

Colin Burton Stewart with the following inscription.

1954; "Colin: I knew Brocklehurst well: he was Game Warden of the Sudan

and succeeded by "Pango" Barker who is still there.

Brocklehurst was drowned in the Salween River in Burma

during the retreat of the British Forces from Rangoon to Assam

in 1942: I was in Calcutta and present at that time forming

what was later to be Force 136."

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Publishers tan cloth with gilt lion vignette on cover.

Gilt title on spine. Gilt top page edges.

xix, 170 pages + colour frontispiece with tissue-guard.

11 colour plates + 14 black and white plates.

Folding map + in-text illustrations.

"Read all you can about the animals you intend to hunt",

writes Brocklehurst in his author's note. He ably describes all

manner of big game, presenting them in alphabetical order

from addax to Grant's zebra. The text is beautifully

complemented by W.H. Riddell's coloured plates, and life-size

silhouettes of spoor. Included is a six-page chapter entitled

"On Killing Elephant" by W.D.M. Bell (Czech, An Annotated

Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1950, p.22). 

Recorded shipping weight 2000g.

Shipped and insured by recorded delivery.