EIGHTEEN YEARS ON LAKE BANGWEULU

With an Introduction by Major H. C. Maydon.

376 pages, photographic frontispiece and numerous photographic plates, colour map as front endpaper, original yellow cloth with gilt titling on the spine and a vignette on the upper cover. The cloth is stained and lifting at the bottom of the upper cover, the lower hinge is split along the entire length, staining at the bottom of the endpaper map and this carries through the ten leaves, name stamps on the front free endpapers, the remainder of the contents are good. A fair copy only.

Czech (Dr Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books from 1785 -1999, page135, 'Hughes travelled to Nyasaland in 1901 as an assistant native commissioner in the British South Africa Company, eventually resigning his post in favour of becoming a full-time hunter and trader. Over the next decade, he explored and hunted around Lake Bangweulu and its attendant swampy region, and the rivers Chambesi and Luapula. There are numerous hunting incidents, particularly after elephant, lion, buffalo, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros, with cheetah bagged near the Luena River. In addition, eland, sable, puku, sitatunga, warthog, and other game was collected. He also provides advice for future sportsmen: "Always aim low at a buffalo - his chest is only two feet from the grouud; nevery fire unless you can see him properly"....This is an excellent work of hunting and adventure with wonderful detail of the area (today's Zambia), and quite scarce.'