MEMORIES OF AN AFRICAN HUNTER

This copy has been rebound with half leather and marbled boards and raised bands to the spine. Now a very attractive copy. New end papers. Frontispiece of the author's first elephant. 49 black and white illustrations / photographs. Content clear and bright. Three old library markings in front. 268 pages.

With a chapter on Eastern India.

Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 (New edition 2011), page 174, ‘In this autobiographical work, Lyell recounts his earliest travels in Mashonaland, heading into the interior after eland, nyala and lion. He continued in Nyasaland where he bagged kudu, lion, impala, sable and hippopotamus. He collected his first elephant using a Gibbs .303 magazine rifle  Lyell devotes a lengthy chapter to his continuing elephant experiences, and includes hunts for buffalo, rhinoceros, eland and lion near Lake Victoria.’