Across the Great Craterland to the Congo

Describing a Journey of Exploration and Research to the Land of The Giant Craters of Tanganyika Territory, and to the Forests, Lakes and Volcanoes of the South-Eastern Congo. With some account of the African Apes, and the capture and training of the African Elephant.

8vo, 276 pages. Frontispiece + 63 plates + 2 folding maps. Tan cloth and gilt spine titles.

Barnes was joined by noted rifle maker Sir Charles Ross on an expedition leaving Mombasa in 1921. The party hunted lion and rhino near the Ngorongoro Crater, then travelled to the Lake Kivu region of the eastern Belgian Congo where the author managed to bag a large gorilla. Continuing southward, Burns hunted elephant near Lake Mweru and goes on record saying "there is no immediate possibility of the African elephant being exterminated." Included among the photos is a snapshot of a poacher named Bowen with an elephant he bagged sporting a pair of tusks at 173 and 176 lbs. (An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1950 - Czech)

Sale condition: Frontispiece and a few other illustrations have come loose from the binding. This book has some lean. A dark mark on front cloth and a white mark on rear panel on cloth. Newspaper clippings pasted of ffep and fep.