With 18 illustrations and a map
First Edition: 347 pages, 18 photographic plates, folding map, original red cloth with a floral vignette on the upper cover, insect scarring at the bottom of the upper cover and on the back cover, top edge gilt, contents free of foxing, a very good copy.
Czech (Kenneth) Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 -1999, pages 304/5, ‘Wilson, an officer in the King’s African Rifles, mixed military activities with sport. En route to an assignment on the Nile, he bagged his first elephant. Along British East Africa’s Mara River, he collected roan antelope, eland and lion, and hunted buffalo from a machan. His best chapters recount his elephant hunting adventures near Nimule on the White Nile. As Wilson notes, “I personal find an elephant easier to kill than a snipe, but then I am a vile shot with a scattergun.”'
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 8vo (225 x 145 m)
