EARLY DAYS IN EAST AFRICA

With a foreword by Lord Cranworth Illustrated

First Edition. 388 pages, frontispiece portrait, 15 black and white plates, folding map, light foxing in the text, neatly rebacked preserving the original backstrip, titled gilt on the spine which is faded, new end papers, blue cloth.

Czech (Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 page 138 -139: An administrator in British East Africa, Jacskon recounts his early days hunting around Lke Lamu in the 1880's. Besides hippo, waterbuck, hartebeest, eland and oryx, he bagged buffalo near the Mau Escarpment, and buffalo, elephant and lion near Mt. Elgon. He also relates a failed attempt at the elusive bongo. The author met quite a few well known hunters of the era including Count Teleki, Sir John Willoughby, Buffalo Jones, William Rainsford and others. Of interest are his comments regarding Teddy Roosevelt whom Jackson liked, but decried his over expenditure of ammunition on game. There is also a chapter on professional hunters in general.