HUNTING THE AFRICAN RHINO: AN ANTHOLOGY. Edited by Jim Rikhoff.

2015 1st edition. 8vo (170 x 252mm). Pp477. Colour and b/w illustrations by Guy Coheleach. Textured maroon faux leather, rhino motif to upper board, spine titled in gilt, all edges gilt, silk marker ribbon. Slipcase. Edition limited to 1,000 copies.

In the early 1980s The Amwell Press began an ambitious project to produce anthologies of the African "Big Five." From 1984 to 1995 The Amwell Press produced four out of five titles covering buffalo, elephant, lion and leopard, in what it labeled its Big Game Series. All four books became part of its African Hunting Heritage Collection. Safari Press, in association with The Amwell Press, have now completed the series with the publication of Jim Rikhoff's Hunting the African Rhino. An excellent anthology of African rhinoceros hunting tales from many well known names from the 1840s to the 1990s. Chapters include:- William Cotton Oswell and his experiences with rhinoceroses (1846) by Oswell; The African rhinoceros (1856) by Andersson; My first rhinoceros (1889) by Willoughby; The rhinoceros (1890) by Baker; The black rhinoceros (1892) by Swayne; Hunting the rhinoceros (1895) by Knox; Rhinoceros shooting (1899) by Ansorge; Sport with rhino in Zululand (1903) by Findlay; Rhinoceros and lion hunting (1903) by Niedieck; The rhinoceros (1903) by Schillings; The rhinoceros (1905) by Bryden; Two rhinos beyond Baringo (1908) by Chapman; Exciting adventures with rhinoceros (1909) by Dugmore; The ferocity of rhinos and buffaloes (1909) by Madeira; The home of the rhino (1910) by McCutcheon; The great rhinoceros of the Lado (1910) by Roosevelt; The African rhinoceros (1910) by Tjader; Rhinoceros (1924) by Percival; Two rhinos with one bullet (1925) by Mason; Following the rhino (1928) by Patterson; The African rhinoceros (1929) by Kittenberger; A rhino adventure (1930) by Stoneham; Hotele Kifaru (1930) by Sutton; Thick-skinned game (1932) by Maydon; The stupidity of the rhino (1933) by Foran; The savage of thorn and sand (1933) by Stoneham; The rhino tunnels (1934) by Courtney; Chased by a rhino (1937) by Combe; The great Makueni rhino hunt (1952) by Hunter; The rhinoceros (1954) by Sommer; Black rhino hunting, the unpredicatably tempered beast (1955-1968) by Kingsley-Heath; To catch a rhino (1956) by Cedergren; The black rhinoceros (1957) by Ker; Rhino (1960-1972) by Aagaard; Faro, the rhinoceros (1960) by Holmes; Walk around a rhino (1962) by Hibben; Rhino vs. bulldozer (1963) by Hibben; Iron-plated tinhorn (1963) by O'Connor; The rhino and the leopard (1966) by Negley; Kfaru (1968) by Keith; Rhino hunting (1969) by Klineburger; The killer of Karimunda (1970) by Sanchez; Rhino hunting with bow and arrow (1970) by Swinehart; White rhino at dusk in South Africa (1972) by Vermaak; Rhino (1983) by Batten; Rhino (1983) by Capstick; The Palala River (1985) by Boddington; Rhino roulette (1988) by Gates; The day of the rhino (1989) by Branham; The "invisible" white rhino (1995) by Sanchez.