BIG GAME HUNTING IN CENTRAL AFRICA. By W. Buckley.

1930 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 225mm). Ppviii,268. Frontispiece, b/w photographs. Brown cloth, blind-stamped titles and trademark within ruled borders to upper board, spine titled in gilt.

"One of the better elephant hunting titles. Buckley hunted pachyderms primarily near the headwaters of the Nile in Uganda Territory and the Manyema region of the Belgian Congo. His descriptions of the region are quite good. There is also mention of lion hunting near the Chari River". (Czech). Chapters include: After elephant; Shooting from a ladder; Native owns wild elephant; Pace of an elephant; A narrow escape; Another close shave; Surrounded by elephants; The closest; Lost in the bush; Cow elephants; elephant food; Dangerous game; Bennet's experience; An experience among the Lugwara; Guns, traps, and trappers; Queer characters I have met; Camp-fire yarns; Native servants; An interesting canoe trip; I arrive on the Kimberley diamond fields; At the river diggings; On the Murchison range; The Matabele Rebellion; I elect to settle in the country; The Jameson Raid; The Second Matabele Rising.