THE MIGHTY NIMROD

Foreword by Wilfred Thesiger.

312 pages, 10 portraits, 4 black and white illustrations, maps on end papers, blue cloth titled gilt on the spine, a very good copy in the dust jacket.

Dust jacket: "To the Victorians, Frederick Courteney Selous was the greatest big-game hunter of them all. In some forty-four years hunting, Selous achieved world fame - both from the sheer audacity of his exploits in the bush, and from his considerable skill in recounting his adventures through books and lectures. Known to the popular press of the day as the Mighty Nimrod, his formidable reputations a hunter and explorer brought him into contact with many of the leading figures of his age"