First Edition: 232 pages, frontispiece portrait, 2 maps, 30 illustrations, original red cloth, dust jacket frayed at the edges, now preserved in a protector.
Editor's note: Major Pretorius was an explorer, hunter and traded in the African hinterland. 'During the East African Campaign of the First World War the writer became a hunter of men, and his unequalled knowledge of the ground over which operations were conducted rendered his services most valuable to the British. Despite his military exploits, it is as a big-game hunter and explorer of secret ways that Major Pretorius will be remembered primarily.'
Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, page 227, 'An exciting autobiography that details the author's wanderings from South Africa, along the eastern coast of the continent, into the interior of British East Africa. There are numerous incidents of hunting lion, buffalo and elephant, the latter in the Addu brush country of the Transvaal. He also details his efforts to find the German cruiser Koenigsburg which has in the Rufiji Delta during the Great War, and other military adventures. Pretorius died in 1945 prior to to publication.
- Size: 8vo (210 x140mm)
