First edition. 221 pages, frontispiece, 12 plates, original red cloth, gilt vignette of an elephant's head on the upper cover, gilt titling on the spine - which is now faded, book plate of I. & F.W. Hosken on the front paste down end paper, fore edge and bottom edge uncut, a good copy.
Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 Page 174: This excellent book includes the author’s adventures hunting elephant in various parts of Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa: "An elephant often screams when he comes for a hunter, but not always, for I have seen one come on without making a sound except with their feet as they rustled through the grass." Of additional interest, are his chapters on early elephant hunters, recent (ca. early 20th century) hunters and even a passage on hunters killed by big game.
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