Publisher's illustrated card covers.
209pp. Illustrated. Map endpapers showing routes travelled by the author through Mozambique.
The true first edition, published in South Africa in 1980, the British first edition appeared in 1981. Reprinted by Amwell publications in 1986, in a limited de luxe print run, as well as by Rowland Ward in 1997.
Binding sound. Internally clean.
INSCRIBED by the author to well-known professional hunter Don Lindsay who's ownership signature appears on the top corner of same leaf, "For you, Don, with very best wishes. Harry Manners. SKUKUZA, K.N.P. February, 1985."
Don Lindsay was an icon of hunting and conservation. He was a founding member of the International Professional Hunter's Association (IPHA) and served as its president for 14 years. He was also a founding member of the Professional Hunter's Association of South Africa (PHASA), where he served as president for 9 years. PHASA is a professional hunter's association which has become the largest and most influential in the world today.
'Although the accent in our present decade is concerned with the preservation of our precious species of wild life, it was not so long ago when hunting was the lifestyle of the affluent and trophy hunters were looked upon with awe. This is an extraordinary story of a lifetime spent in the jungles of Mozambique hunting elephants for their ivory, and in order to provide meat for workers on the tea estates. Very few men of our time have pitted their skills and endurance in such adverse conditions and over such a long period as did Harry Manners.'
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 8vo.
