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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Stigand (Captain C.H.)

HUNTING THE ELEPHANT IN AFRICA

Published: Macmillan and Co. Limited, London, 1913

Edition: First edition

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And other recollections of thirteen years’ wanderings

With an Introduction by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt

First edition: 379 pages, frontispiece, 22 illustrations, folding table at the end of 'Measurements of Male Elephant and Their Tusks' torn, original red cloth titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy.

Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 – 1999, page 269: 'A pre-eminent elephant hunting title, this details Stigand's big game hunting efforts primarily in British East Africa, North Eastern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and the Lado Enclave. He includes chapters on hunting rhinoceros, buffalo and lion, but related his encounters with elephants with particular verve. As he states in Chapter 1: "There is something so fascinating and absorbing about elephant hunting that those who have done much of it can seldom take any interest again in any other form of sport."

  • Overall Condition: A very good copy
  • Size: 8vo (220 x150mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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