IN AFRICAN GAME TRACKS: WANDERINGS WITH A RIFLE THROUGH EASTERN AFRICA. By Frank Lavallin Puxley.

Puxley (Frank Lavallin).

ISBN 10: 188245801X / ISBN 13: 9781882458011

Published by Trophy Room Books, Agoura, California and Rowland Ward, London. 1993, 1993

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1993). (1929) 1993 new facsimile reprint. 8vo (140 x 223mm). Ppii,320. B/w photographs, decorative end-papers. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt. Edition limited to 750 copies, signed and numbered by the publisher, Ellen Enzler Herring. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. Signed & numbered by Ellen Enzler Herring. This is a facsimile reprint of the first edition of Puxley's fascinating memoir of Africa at the close of the nineteenth century. Chapters include: Early days in Matabililand; Service in the Boer War; Among whales; Mozambique, lions and eland; Nyasaland and eland; Bua, Livaletsi and hippo; Nyasaland and buffalo; White and black; T.T. insects and the Ruaha; The Mahenge district and giraffe; Crocodiles and Shaitan the elephant; The Kilombero; Back to Kilossa; Towards Uganda - the Semiliki Valley; Uganda and the lakes: Journey's end. .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: IN AFRICAN GAME TRACKS: WANDERINGS WITH A RIFLE THROUGH EASTERN AFRICA. By Frank Lavallin Puxley.
• Publisher: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, California and Rowland Ward, London. 1993
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 188245801X
• ISBN 13: 9781882458011
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: new
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

993 CA 320 pp. Illustrated. 5½x8½ inch format. Puxley began his hunting career shortly after the turn of the century and for almost 30 years he followed in African game tracks. He was a contemporary of Neumann, Bell, Sutherland, Lyell, Kirby and Stigand. But his book was printed in a small edition and, until our reprint, was unavailable to the hunting public. Puxley hunted Africa from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania to Nyasaland, Mozambique, Rhodesia and South Africa. His most exciting moments came when he was about to reach elephants he had been tracking for weeks. There are also adventures with buffalo, lion etc. If in the heart of every man who is half a boy and every boy who is half a man, there is a longing for adventure, then this book satisfies that thirst. Limited to 750 copies, numbered/signed by the publisher.