TRAGIC SAFARI. By Albert Mahuzier. Translated by Alec Brown.

1956 1st English edition. 8vo (142 x 221mm). Pp144. B/w photographs, end-paper maps. Brown cloth, spine titled in black.

Albert Mahuzier develops a system for taking colour photographs at night, and travels to French West Africa to put it into practice. Mahuzier's experience in Africa was markedly different from that in his garden at home, as the title suggests. Chapters include: All but a jeep; The flowers of Oubangui; The rains overtake us; Banquet across the Aouk; Buffalo, lions and native beer; The lion kills; On elephant trails; Gazimunju's hunt; Eleventh-hour panther.