BELL OF AFRICA: WITH APPENDIX ON RIFLES AND SHOOTING. By Walter D.M. Bell. First edition.
1960 1st edition. 4to (185 x 239mm). Ppxvi,236. B/w photographs, illustrations by the author, map. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt.
This is Karamojo Bell's autobiography, compiled from his notes by his lifelong friend Col. Townsend Whelen. From his early days, the Yukon gold-rush and the Boer War, to elephant hunting in Karamojo, Dabossa, the Sudd of the Gelo River, the Lado Enclave, liberia, French Equatorial Africa, the Ivory Coast, the Niger and the Benue. By "...the greatest of the old-time professional elephant hunters."
This is Karamojo Bell's autobiography, compiled from his notes by his lifelong friend Col. Townsend Whelen. From his early days, the Yukon gold-rush and the Boer War, to elephant hunting in Karamojo, Dabossa, the Sudd of the Gelo River, the Lado Enclave, liberia, French Equatorial Africa, the Ivory Coast, the Niger and the Benue. By "...the greatest of the old-time professional elephant hunters."
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| Author | Bell (Walter Dalrymple Maitland). (1880-1954). |
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| Book Code | 10816 |
| ISBN | 0854351353 / 0854351353. |
| Book Description | End-paper inscription. Very good in rubbed but complete dust-wrapper. |
| Book Cover | Hardcover |
| Published Date | 1960 |
| Publisher | Neville Spearman and The Holland Press. |
| Place | London. |