AFRICAN HUNTER. By James Mellon and other authorities.

1975 1st edition. Large 4to (232 x 310mm). Ppxx,522. B/w photographs, illustrations and maps throughout, bibliography. Silver and red titles to black boards and spine.

A country-by-country and species-by-species survey of African game and hunting. The most comprehensive and authoritative modern book on the subject. Chapters include: 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; Huntin Sitatunga on the Sesse Islands in Lake Victoria. How to arrange a safari. The element of danger: An elephant's revenge; A brush with a Rhino; the Buffalo who had eleven lives; A double Lion mauling; My first Leopard mauling. 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, by Rowland Ward, Ltd (London). Sudan: General survey; Hunting Nubian Ibex in the Red Sea Hills; Staliking Nile Lechwe at Lake Nyubor. Central Africa: General survey; A Bongo hunt in Ubangi; Hunting the Giant Eland; A Barbary Sheep hunt in the Ennedi Mountains of Chad; Hunting in the Sahara on foot, and from a safari car; Into the recesses of the Sahara. West Africa: General survey; Gabon; Liberia. North Africa. South Africa: Vaal Rehbok, Blesbok, bontebok, White-tailed Gnu, and other game. South-West Africa, Gemsbuck, Greater Kudu, and other game. Angola: General survey; Shooting the world-record Giant Sable Antelope. Mozambique: General survery; Nyala. Botswana: General survey; A shoot in the Okavango region; Hunting Gemsbuck in the Kalahari Desert. Zambia: General survey; Hunting Kafue Flats Lechwe and Black Lechewe. Rhodesia. Zaire: General survey; An Okapi hunt in the Ituri Forest; African game animals. Bibliography. Numerous contributors.