MEMORIES OF A GAME RANGER

Hardcover Quarto, Bound in dark green cloth boards, with 313 pages. Decorative gilt tittles on the front cover, and to the spine. Head/ heel and corners are a bit bumped and rubbed.

Frontispiece portrait of the author, with detailed black & white plates and illustrations in text. There is an inscription from the illustrator C.T. Astley-Maberly with a photograph stuck onto the half titled page; the photograph appears to be Maberly.

Attractive illustrated map of the southern portion of Kruger National Park on the endpapers. Overall, the binding and thebook are in good condition.

"I suppose there can be few if any men in all Africa possessing a deeper knowledge and wider experience of bush lore in all its phases and in his prime he held all the qualities requisite to give effect to that knowledge and experience; a powerful frame, an iron constitution; cool courage and quiet determination.

In addition, his complete mastery of the local Bantu language, and acquaintance with their customs, earned him exceptional liking and respect among the tribal natives. His unique exploit in killing, single-handed, and armed only with a knife, a full grown male lion which had seized, and was carrying him off, was in itself a feat rendering superfluous any further tributes to his rare courage and coolness;

but it is worth remarking that in many hazards - happily all safely surmounted - which he has since incurred in the course of his duties, his nerve has shown itself to be just as calm and steady as it was when he underwent that terrible experience." - From the Foreword by J. Stevenson-Hamilton.