Limited Edition: 333 pages, numerous colour and black & white photographs, brown cloth titled and decorated on the upper cover and spine, fine copy in brown cloth slip case.
One Thousand Copies of the First Edition of Sun Over the Dark Continent by Charles Bazzy have been printed by Safari Press.
This numbered and signed edition is the sixty-fifth book in the Classics of African Hunting Series. This copy is number 246. Signed by the author.
Publisher's note: 'The author went on his first African trip in 1953 when he hunted in Tanganyika with PH Clary Palmer-Wilson. Bazzy was a lucky man and a good hunter, and on that trip he shot a lesser kudu that still ranks today in the top five in the record book. Once he acquired a taste of Africa, he wanted to go back, for, let’s face it, who does not? In fact, he loved Africa so much he decided to make a living in the hunting industry. To that end, he started taking clients to Africa, and, at the same time he became an apprentice PH. He took numerous trips to East Africa in those early days, bagging most of the Big Five, before trying out the hunting fields of Sudan. His first safari to Sudan in 1961 started a love affair with that country that was to last most of his life. He went back to Sudan multiple times, seeing the country in all its savage beauty. There he met the greats of the hunting industry including Tony Sanchez, Angelo Dacey, and Franz Coupé. It can be fairly said that there are few people who have had more experience in Sudan than Chuck Bazzy.
The Dark Continent is a large place, so, besides Sudan, Bazzy hunted in Botswana with PH John Kingsley-Heath when it just opened as well as in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, and Ethiopia. In these and other countries he found many adventures and a few darn-good trophies (including a huge mountain nyala) and, of course, the many other things that Africa tends to provide the international hunter: lost or stolen luggage, problems with flights and connections, dysfunctional governments, rebels, bandits, poachers, and more. Much is said and written of the golden era of safari hunting, and one can argue when it began and whether we are still in the period today. However, few can dispute the fact that Chuck Bazzy experienced some of the best big-game hunting Africa had to offer over the past five decades. We should all be so lucky!'
- Overall Condition: Fine
- Size: 8vo (235 x 155mm)
