Hunting Beasts and Men

First edition. 288pp. Red cloth covered boards, faded to the spine and top edge. B + w illustrations.A couple of spots of foxing to the flyleaves, otherwise internally clean. An adventurous life - the author left England in 1919, took a trading waggon through African kraals, learned to hunt, found a diamond field and was left alone when his mutinous cannibal guides deserted. After ants ate his savings he joined the Rhodesian Mounted police and rode the veldt alone settling native quarrels and chasing murderous witch doctors. Elephant graveyards, lost treasures and the Leopard Man.