BUFFALO, ELEPHANT and BONGO: ALONE IN THE SAVANNAS AND RAIN FORESTS OF THE CAMEROON. By Reinald von Meurers.

(1989) ND [2004] US trade edition. 8vo (160 x 235mm). Ppviii,233. Colour and b/w photographs, patterned end-papers. Red boards, spine titled in black. ISBN 1571571604.

An account of many hunting trips into the interior of Cameroon in search of elephant, bongo, buffalo, sitatunga, giant forest hog, bushpig and dwarf buffalo. The author organises his own safaris and carries them out only in the company of local helpers. Includes a chapter on organising your own hunting trip, as well as much incidental useful advice. First published privately by the author in Germany in 1989 as "Bongo Buffel Sitatunga: zehn Jahre Jagd auf eigene Faust in den Urwaldern Kameruns" (Bongo, buffalo, sitatunga: ten years single-handed in the primeval forests of Cameroon).