DANGER DOWN THE SIGHTS. By Barney Berlinger.

1964 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 210mm). Pp202. B/w photograph plates. Black boards, spine titled in red.

"From Pennsylvania's Rattlesnake Swamp, where he shot his first buck at fourteen, to the strictly big-league hunter's stalking grounds, the African Bush, Barney Berlinger takes you on a tremendously exciting journey into the life and lands of the hunter of big game". Chapters include; My wanderlust; Pack trains and mountain goats; About wolves; The mountain grizzly; On to Alaska; We hunt the brown bear; Moose and mooseburgers; Black bears at timber line; For men only!; Africa at last; To miss is a mystery. To hit is history. Buffalo; Our first leopard; Antelope and tsetse flies; Wings over Africa; Elephant hunting; The end of our safari; The picture on the wall; The Moyar Valley tigress; At the wrong end of a gun; Crisis for African wildlife.