AFRICAN HUNTER by James Mellon+Others +382 Photos+19 Maps GOOD RARE BOOK

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ALL POSTAGE COSTS FOR UK AND INTERNATIONAL AT BOTTOM OF DESCRIPTION This Auction is for A REALLY SUPER RARE ILLUSTRATED Hardback Book 1st Edition * 1975 * AFRICAN HUNTER By James Mellon And Other Authorities Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT WITH 382 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS Includes 19 maps – Cartrography by Harold K Faye A Real Collector’s Book This good large heavy book comes to you in good used condition Some wear, marks and some damage to the illustrated dustjacket Some minor wear and bumping to the black hard cloth covers CONTENTS CLEAN & INTACT (some slight creasing to some of the early pages) 522 Printed Pages WHAT IS THIS BOOK ABOUT? “The most ardent and intricately detailed treatment of hunting to appear in forty years, African Hunter will be instantly recognized as the definitive work. In sheer scope it is virtually unrepeatable, very probably the last book of its kind, it sums up the most thrilling aspect of a continent of extremes. James Mellon, one of the world’s greatest hunters, has written twenty one of the fifty two chapters himself and commissioned the others from leading contemporary hunting authorities: game wardens, naturalists, conservationists, professional hunters, and sportsmen. Taking for their arena some twenty countries and for their subject matter more than two hundred kinds of animals (from the ten pound dik-dik to the five ton elephant, together they have produced the bible of African safari, including: information on the distribution of game animals, the areas that have produced the finest trophies and the best time of year to hunt in each, advice on the selection of weapons and on the field care and preparation of trophies and maps of game areas. The book is further enriched by 382 spectacular photographs of scenes of the chase. African Hunter sweeps the reader along with its astonishing immediacy and particularity of incident, in tales as wild and colourful as the animals that march past us, indifferent to our pity. An uncongenial rare bongo goes so far as to allow himself to be pursued for 60 days in vain; an elephant is unburdened of the 350 pounds of ivory he carries in his colossal tusks, an Ethiopian on his way back to camp from retrieving a fallen Ibex plunges 3,000 feet down the Geech Cliffs; and Mellon himself has the shock of encountering one of the platter-lipped women of Ubangi. The stories of near fatal confrontations with five of Africa ’s most dangerous game animals (elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion and leopard) will rivet not only hunters, naturalists and outdoorsmen, but also those who thrill to reading about adventures in some of the wildest regions left on earth. CHAPTER HEADINGS & THEIR CONTENTS IN BRIEF: Introduction – Abdorreza Pahlavi, Prince of Iran Kenya : General survey The Elephant Country Masailand The Northern Region The Mountain forests In the Old Days Tanzania : General survey A Greater Kudu Hunt How Edmund Sunde Shot His Elephant Uganda : General survey Hunting Sitatunga on the Sesse Islands in Lake Victoria Hunting a Mountain Gorilla on the Virunga Volcanoes How to Arrange A Safari: how to arrange a Safari The Element of Danger: An Elephant’s Revenge A Brush with a Rhino A Double Lion Mauling My First Leopard Mauling – Eric Rundgren Sporting Arms and Their Use in Africa : Sporting Arms and Their use in Africa Ethiopia : General survey The Abyssinian Ibex, or Walia The Mountain Nyala Quest for the Nile , or Mrs Gray’s Lechwe Somalia : Beira antelope, Dibatag, Speke’s Gazelle, Somali Soemmering’s Gazelle, Hunter’s Hartebeest, Pelzeln’s Gazelle, and Other Game The Skinning, Field Care, and Shipment of Game Trophies: The Skinning, Field Care and Shipment of Game Trophies - Rowland Ward Ltd ( London ) Sudan : General Survey Hunting Nubian Ibex in the Red Sea Hills Stalking Nile, or Mrs Gray’s ... read more

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