HUNTER AWAY: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ARTHUR HENRY NEUMANN 1850 - 1907. By Monty Brown.

1993 1st edition. 4to (195 x 260mm). Pp351. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations. Claret cloth, spine titled in gilt. Edition limited to 1000 signed and numbered copies.

Arthur Neumann "is chiefly known for his occupation as a hunter of elephants in East Africa. What is not generally considered is that the years he spent in this activity took up only a short period of his life. During the remainder he fought in two wars, farmed in South Africa, spent a short time gold mining in the Transvaal in the 1870's, wandered and hunted on the Limpopo and Sabi rivers, operated as a trader and transporter in Swaziland, acted as a magistrate in Zululand, was an employee of the Imperial British East Africa Company, and authored a book plus several articles for another. ...This biography is the first serious attempt to describe Neumann's life and analyse his curious and somewhat lonely mentality."