ELEPHANTS IN AFRICA

186 pages, frontispiece, 11 illustrations, original green cloth with dust jacket faded and torn on the spine

Czech (Kenneth) AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN BIG GAME HUNTING BOOKS 1785 -1999 Page 193: Melland's work on the elephant combines sporting elements and natural history. He recounts elephant hunting by a number of sportsmen such as James Sutherland, David Blunt, Mickey Norton and others, including his own travels through Africa more than three decades earlier with Edward Cholmeley. In one instance he recalls facing three charging elephants while armed only with a .303 which I had just bought for one Pound. It was very old and the barrel was badly worn: it was not gas-tight and burned my cheek each time I fired it. Fortunately he survived the encounter.