325 pages, frontispiece of the author in Uganda, 120 photographic illustrations, folding map repaired with tape and starting to tear again, original blue cloth, spine gilt and frayed at the bottom, corners bumped, foxing on page edges, book plate on front paste-down endpaper, cancelled ownership plate and ticket of the Times Book Club on the back paste-down end paper.
Czech (K.) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 (new edition 2011), page 61: A scientist by profession, Christy hunted throughout the equatorial region along the Ituri River in the Belgian Congo, the Katanga District, in Uganda and the Lado Enclave. He bagged elephant, buffalo, lion and bongo and was the first European to track and shoot an okapi.
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