Elephant ( With Letter )

Published by East Africa, 1933, 1st English edition.. 8vo (150 x 232mm). xvi,26 pages. B/w photograph plates. Stone grey cloth, gilt elephant head vignette on upper board. Gilt title to spine faded. Cloth and text tanned. Internally very good with some rashes of foxing. Tipped-in letter from the Game Dept, Liwale detailing the killing of a game scout by a female tusker after hasty and inaccurate shooting. Copy of R A Pollard, Game Dept. Scarce

One of the classic studies of African elephants and elephant hunting. "Blunt was an elephant control officer in Tanganyika, hunting primarily in the Lindi Province. He details the natural history and biology of the elephant, relates his experiences as a cultivation officer and provides an excellent chapter on past and present elephant hunters." Czech. "...probably the most encyclopaedic book on elephants." Melland.