safari press long beach california 2015 (3 results)

Condition: new. (Hardcover, 2015). (1960) 2015 new edition. 8vo (158 x 236mm). Ppxvi,236. B/w photographs, illustrations by the author, maps. Red boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. This is Karamojo Bell's autobiography, compiled from his notes by his lifelong friend Col. Townsend Whelen. From his early days in Edinburgh; the Yukon gold-rush and the Boer War, to elephant hunting in Karamojo, Dabossa, the Sudd of the Gelo River, the Lado Enclave, Liberia, French Equatorial Africa, the Ivory Coast, the Niger and the Benue. By ".the greatest of the old-time professional elephant hunters." A great read in conjunction with Bell's other books, The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, and, Karamojo Safari. This, the first Safari Press edition, was produced in September 2015 despite the copyright page giving the date as 2016. .

Condition: new. (Hardcover, 2014). 2015 1st edition. 8vo (163 x 244mm). Ppxxxviii,330. Colour and b/w photographs, maps. Red cloth titled and decorated in black and gilt. Red slip-case. Edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies. Fine new copy in slipcase. Signed by the author. Numbered copy from a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Tony Sanchez-Arino recalls his big game hunting adventures in the remotest corners of Central Africa including the old Belgian Congo (later Zaire and now DRC), Gabon, Sudan, Uganda, Ubangi-Shari (C.A.R.), and, although not in the same geographical area as the others, Somalia. Chapters include:- The Nile and the Central African Savanna buffaloes; The Derby eland; A little respect for the poor buffaloes; The lost triangle of the Ubangi-Shari; The old patriarch; The Ashong disaster; A hellish experience with Nile lechwe; Karpeto; In the northeast of the Belgian Congo; Operation Gangala-na-Bodio; The 'deaf' leopard; In the middle of nowhere; In green Uganda; Some characters I have met in Uganda; In my lost Sudan; Hunting in the last corner of Africa; Gorillas; The dwarf or red forest buffalo; Other animals of the equatorial forest; Sitatunga; In the unknown land of Gabon; Chasing elephants in the Ituri forest; The other side of the moon; The dwarf buffaloes of Sangha; Hunted but not deserved; The elephant with a toothache; Epilogue. .

Condition: new. (Hardcover, 2015). 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. Fine new copy in slipcase. Signed by the author. Numbered copy from a limited edition of 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. .