BELL OF AFRICA: WITH APPENDIX ON RIFLES AND SHOOTING. By Walter D.M. Bell.

(1960) 2015 new edition. 8vo (158 x 236mm). Ppxvi,236. B/w photographs, illustrations by the author, maps. Red boards, spine titled in gilt.

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.