HUNTING BEASTS AND MEN

Published by Robert Hale & Company. London. 1933. 1st edition. 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 220mm). Pp288. B/w photograph plates. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Spine titles darkened, cloth slightly faded and some foxing. Odd splash mark. Internally very good with ink inscription on the fep, part English part Hebrew. ( Happy Bar Mitzva ).

"This is a story of real adventure. And it substantiates the tallest tales with the names of real men and real places. The author left England as a lad, in 1919. He became a storekeeper at the back of beyond, took a trading wagon through forgotten African kraals, learned to hunt with professional hunters, and found a secret diamond field. His partner died, leaving him, a mere boy, along with mutinous cannibal guides, in the heart of the Congo. They left him for dead, but he got back to civilization after months spent semi-naked and quite wild, like Tarzan of the Apes. White ants ate his entire savings. He joined the Rhodesian Mounted Police, and rode the veldt alone, chased withc-doctor murderers and settled native quarrels. Hairbreadth thrills with big game and murderous natives, accounts of lost treasures, elephant graveyards, the Leopard Men - we meet them all." .