An interesting work providing brief biographies with considerable mention of the sportsmen of the region, including Oswell, Baldwin, Selous and Cumming. Even more helpful are the biographies of Boer hunters such as Petrus Jacobs, the famous elephant hunter. (An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785 to 1950 - Czech)
List of pioneers / sportsmen: Jacobus Coetsee, Hendrik Hop, Willem van Reenen, Pieter Brand, Jacob Gordon, Pieter Jan Truter, Rev. Anderson, Burchell, Captain Cutfield, Coenraad du Buys, A.G. Bain, Kruger family, David Hume, R Schoon, Gert Maritz, Cornwallis-Harris, Louis & Karel Trichardt, Andries Hendrik Potgieter, Gordon-Cumming, William Robinson, H Reader, William Wood, Baldwin, Jan Viljoen, Petrus Jacobs, Henry Hartley, Joseph McCabe, Wilson, Samuel Edwards, John Dunn, Frederick Green, Oswell, Major Frank Vardon, Murray of Lintrose, Martinus Swartz, Paul Zietsman, Chapman, Andersson, Willem Prinsloo, Adam Render, Thomas Leask, George Westbeech, George Wood, Vincent Erskine, Wahlberg, Carl Mauch, Thomas Baines, Beningfield.
Red cloth boards, gilt lettered to the upper panel and spine, plain endpapers, [x] pp of prelims + portrait of the author as frontispiece + 128 pages of text and appendix + 12 inserted halftone portraits and scenes.
Jack Carruthers (1863-1951). Born at Grahamstown. Was first connected with the Colony in 1884 when in the Postal Service in Kimberley. Subsequently met Cecil Rhodes to whom he acted as guide and interpreter. Was engaged in intelligence work until the Pioneer Column was formed. Journeyed independently and joined the Column at the Shashi River in May 1890. Arrived in Salisbury in June 1891.
At Allan Wilson's request he raised the Victoria Scouts which he led throughout the Matabele War of 1883. Was first prospector at the Angwa River in 1891, and, in 1902, crossed the Zambesi prospecting for copper when he cut the road from Sinoia towards the Zambesi. He was one of the best-known prospectors in the Colony and made his last prospecting trip in his 85th year. Died at Banket. ( https://ia801604.us.archive.org/35/items/RhodesianGenesis/RhodesianGenesis.pdf )
CONDITION: Lightly foxed almost throughout. Some age rubbing and marks on red cloth cover. A mark to the spine top on the red board.
- Size: 8vo (230 x150mm)
