1. ONE-MAN SAFARI - Hans-Otto Meissner
Red cloth covers with the title to the spine. 188 pages. The unclipped dust jacket has some slight wear around edges. Previous ownership in ink on ffep.
Translated from German by Robert Noble. 1957 first British edition by Herbert Jenkins, London.
In this book, Meissner presents a graphic picture of his latest safari to French Equatorial Africa in search of big game. He accounted for four specimen elephants, lion, buffaloes, a roque gorilla as well as the shyest and rarest of all African antelope, the bongo.
2. ALWAYS LIGHTLY TREAD - Cronje Wilmot
Brown-yellow cloth binding with title to the front board and spine.
viii + 254pp. Illustrated and edited by C. T. Astley Maberly.
Binding tight. The illustrated original unclipped dust jacket has wear around edges.
'Cronje Wilmot's book is essentially a genuine narrative of the wild, unpredictable part of Africa, which those who have been fortunate enough to know it - have come to love so well.
Dealing in the main with Ngamiland and Bechuanaland, this is no superficial record of a few hastily conducted trips. It is the story of a man who has spent a lifetime in these areas, and he takes us on crocodile shooting in the mysterious Okavango swamps, relates numerous adventures with buffalo, lions and leopards and other less well-known game of the swamplands, such as Lechwe and Sitatunga.
His account of his mauling by a lion is one of the most vivid chapters in the book, whilst he has much to say about the snakes of his part of the world.
All hunters, naturalists, botanists and anglers, as well as all those who enjoy the acrid smell of the camp fire and love the African veld, will enjoy this book.' - (editor's note)
3. OKAVANGO ADVENTURE - Cronje Wilmot
MEMOIRS OF A GAME RANGER
The first reprint of the author's book, published under a different title in 1970. (Always Lightly Tread)
Red cloth covers with the title to the spine, 254 pages, mapped endpapers. The unclipped dust jacket has wear and repair on the spine top edge.
4. I CONCLUDE - Senator W.P. Steenkamp
I Conclude - Convictions and Experiences of a free-thinking Doctor & Hunter. 1947 first edition.
A semi-biography. Frontispiece of the author with a leopard shot near the Ngoro-Goro Crater in Tanganyika. Blue cloth with titles to the spine. 218 pages. A very neat copy, though the dust jacket has paper loss around edges.
Chapters on hunting in Tanganyika and hunting in Portuguese East Africa. Some philosophical chapters on topics such as Evolution theory, Is there a God?, Instinct, Sex and Prayer
5. HUNTER CLIMBING HIGH - Keith Severinsen
1963 hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket and 228 pages in good, used condition. Hunting in the South Island expeditions, Big game in India, adventures in Alaska..... crocodiles, black bear, mule deer in Montana, elusive New Zealand buck.....A full and illustrated account of the hunting exploits of the author both in New Zealand and trophy hunting in India and North America.
