272 pages, frontispiece portrait, original red cloth faded and dull, titled in black on the spine, contents good.
Czech (Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 -1999, (new edition 2011) page 68: Courtney's first book dealing with elephant hunting experiences in the Lorian Swamp, and hunting buffalo, lion, rhino, and roan antelope in the vicinities of lake Mara and lake Natron in British East Africa. A well written account, there are numerous exciting adventures not least of which when the author and his gun bearer were attacked by a swarm of bees while stalking rhino and sought refuge in a rhino wallow.
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