TRAILS OF THE HUNTED
Little, Brown & Co. 1928 Boston, 1st edn, 309pp, illus. Marco Polo sheep, dangerous game of Africa, and North American bears. The Asian sheep section in this book is especially recommended.
Little, Brown & Co. 1928 Boston, 1st edn, 309pp, illus. Marco Polo sheep, dangerous game of Africa, and North American bears. The Asian sheep section in this book is especially recommended.
Chatto & Windus. 1929 London, 1st UK edition, 269pp, illus. Marco Polo sheep, dangerous game of Africa, and North American bears. The Asian sheep section in this book is especially recommended. This is the large paper-size UK edition. Although not the first edition, it is preferable as it is the.....
The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd. 1911 London, 311pp, illus in color and b&w, foldout rear map. Author and her husband traveled from Mozambique to the Victoria Falls, from there North towards Northern Rhodesia, south of Lake Bangwelu, then to Nyasaland and back to Mozambique. Mrs. Colville was transported in.....
Smith, Elder & Co. 1914 London, 1st edn, 262pp, illus, fold-out map. Author claims in the introduction to belong to the "Elephant Hunters" of his time. North-Eastern Congo, Lado Enclave, and Uele District. Mostly elephants, but also hippo and lion etc. Interesting book on an area of Africa on which.....
Rowland Ward. 1912 London, 285pp. Author started his hunting trip in Port Sudan and went south as far as the junction of the Blue Nile and the Ethiopian border. Contains a chapter on the game animals in the Sudan east of the Nile. Also a chapter on shooting large cats.....
Clarendon Press. 1968 Oxford, 1st edn, 548pp, A detailed historical survey of East African from its initial occupation by the Arabs. The author discusses the European presence in the area and its effects on the locals.
Herbert Jenkins Limited. 1953 London, 188pp, frontis, end paper maps. In the Sudan, Ethiopia, and Uganda, story of a lone 3000 mile journey from the source of the Nile to the Mediterranean in a collapsible canoe. Adventure and hunting.
MacMillan & Co. Ltd. 1939 London, 1st edn, 367pp, illus. From the jacket.."..has all the virility and raciness which is to be expected from a man of action, a sportsman, traveler, pioneer settler, and a big game hunter of the days when a safari was an arduous and dangerous expedition.".....
MacMillan and Co., Limited. 1919 London, 503pp, illus, map, color frontis. Written to encourage settlers and big-game hunters to come to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Chapters on "Big Game Shooting", "Animals which Provide Sport", "Animals of the Back Blocks", etc.
T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. 1925 London, 1st edn, 140pp, frontis, 6 plates. The history of the spring or trekbokke that once roamed the South African veld by the millions.
Barre Publishers. 1966 Barre, MA, 1st edn, 183pp, illus, ltd to 2500 numbered copies. Hunting and fishing excursions that range from the mountains of Kashmir and Ceylon to the jungles of India and Africa.
Harper & Brothers. 1850 New York, 1st US edn, 326pp & 303pp + 6pp + 2pp, vignettes. Czech says "After several years in the military, Cumming decided to penetrate the interior of South Africa and try his hand at sport. Near the Great Fish River he discovered vast herds of.....
Rowland Ward. 2007 Johannesburg, 1st edn, 199pp, color photos, ltd to 350 numbered, signed and slipcased copies. This is "an exciting, specialist book on lion hunting for the lion hunter by an expert lion hunter. It contains many thought provoking and valuable lessons, for example, on calibers, cartridges and why.....
Houghton Mifflin Co. 1925 Boston, 280pp, illus. Written by Richard and Charles this book has two sections: Kenya for the heavy stuff and plains game then to Angola for giant sable antelope. In Kenya there was considerable amount of lion hunting, with PH Philip Percival, as well as buffalo and.....
MacMillan and Co. Limited. 1937 London, 1st edn, 322pp, illus. The author ranged all over Africa, largely after big ivory, penetrating the pygmy forests and other recesses then still unexplored. An increasingly scarce book.
A.A. Balkema. 1976 Cape town, 147pp, 30 color plates, ltd to 550 numbered copies, elephant folio. With a new introduction by Frank Bradlow. A sumptuously produced book depicting early South African scenes of natives, camp life, hunting and game animals. Each plate is accompanied with a detailed and lengthy explanatory.....
William Daniell & William Wood. 1820 London, 1st edn, 48 etchings each with a page of explanatory text. Oblong folio. These sketches, by Samuel Daniell, depict a Southern Africa at a time that no photography existed and very few artists bothered to record what was Africa in a pristine, unspoiled.....
George Bell and Sons. 1879 London, 1st end, 298pp, gilt stamped elephant on the cover. Hailing from Portugal the author, Ferdinand Das Neves, set out from Lourenco Marques on an expedition into the Transvaal in 1860 to collect ivory and stimulate trade in Portuguese territory. He hunted along the Save.....
T. Fisher Unwin. 1907 New York, 1st edn, 220pp, photos. Author was a novelist and a WW II correspondent. Travels and observations in the Congo (Zaire) and the West and East coast of Africa. Has an interesting hunting chapter for hippo and crocodile chapter on the Kasai River which is.....
Robert Hale Ltd. 1967 London, 1st edn, 188pp, illus. Early in his hunting career, Dawkins met John Taylor and they became friends, sharing a love of hunting, an enthusiasm for the chances and charges of the chase, and a mutual quest for knowledge about the knock-down characteristics of the various.....
William Heinemann. 1906 London, 2nd edn, 360pp, 183 b&w photos.
Methuen & Co. 1900 London, "new edition" 593pp, illus, 2 maps and 1 colored folding map. Decle traveled from Cape Town to the Zambezi, the north through Tanzania and into Uganda where he hunted rhino and lion, albeit not always successfully.
Methuen & Co. 1898 London, 1st edn, 593pp, illus, fold-out maps. Introduction by Henry Stanley. Lionel Decle gained fame in his day by making the longest journey at one stretch across Africa, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, a distance of over 7,000 miles. He was also the first.....
John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1908 London, 1st edn, 285pp, 77 illus. From Czech "Dickinson's approach is systematic, describing the haunts of each major species of wild game in East Africa including lion, kudu, oryx, eland, and other plains game, particularly near the Gusaso Nyiro and the River Tana. There.....
Hearst and Blackett, Ltd. 1912 London, 334pp, 74 illus and map, decorated cover. Excellent descriptions of the country, Somali ethnography, flora and fauna (Drake-Brockman also published "The Mammals of Somaliland". Livestock, economy etc. Author considerable amounts of time in Somaliland and is a recognized authority on this region.