BIG GAME HUNTING AND ADVENTURE 1897 -1936

322 pages, frontispiece, 7 plates, green cloth gilt with gilt lion’s head on upper cover, small indentation in the upper cover, new front endpapers, contents good.

Czech (Kenneth) AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN BIG GAME HUNTING BOOKS 1789 -1999 page 73 : With a career spanning nearly four decades, Daly hunted big game in various parts of Africa. Included are elephant hunts in Kenya and the Congo in the area of Tanaland and the Lower Wakamba, lion in Matabeleland, as well as safaris to French Equatorial Africa, the Sudan and Cameroons for all manner of game including gorilla. He maintains that of elephant, buffalo and rhino, all are equally dangerous depending on when and where they are met. He includes interesting chapters on why game is disappearing, and on rifle selection and shooting.