BIG GAME SHOOTING AND TRAVEL IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. An account of shooting trips in the Cheringoma and Gorongoza Divisions of Portuguese South-East Africa and in Zululand. By Frederick Roderick Noble Findlay. Briar Patch Press Edition.

(1903) 1990 Briar Patch Press deluxe edition. Large 8vo (150 x 234mm). Ppxxv,313. B/w photographs, illustrations. Full green bonded leather gilt, silk marker, top edge gilt, marbled end-papers. Oatmeal cloth slipcase.

With a new Foreword by Jim Casada. "With chapters by Olive Schreiner and S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner. A map and numerous illustrations." "Though an ardent sportsman, [Findlay] also realized the limits of wild game in Africa and argues for the preservation of habitat and maintaining healthy numbers of game animals." (Czech). "If these pages help in any way to advance our South African Game Reserve scheme, I shall be amply rewarded. On the other hand, should they prompt a single ruthless 'gunner' to visit the country I have shot over, I shall ever regret their publication." Chapters include: From Pretoria to Cheringoma; Exciting adventure with a wounded buffalo; Hippo shooting in the Urema River; A day's ramble in the big game country; Shooting on the Urema River; An expedition beyond the Mwaredzi River; An adventure with a lioness; Sport in Gorongoza; Tracking wounded buffalo; Lion-shooting in the Urema valley and in Gorongoza; An exursion to near the Gorongoza mountain; Last days in the Cheringoma district; Zululand: Further sport with buffalo; Sport with rhino in Zululand; Shooting on the Manzibomvu and Hluhluur rivers, a buffalo charge; A trip to St. Lucia Lake; Hippo shooting in Zululand - sjamboks - baboons; Springbuck shooting; "Trek-bokken" or migratory springbucks; The fauna of Africa: Conservation or extermination; The Mauser rifle as a sporting weapon. Appendices include: Useful articles on a shooting trip; Malarial fever and the mosquito; Text of the Convention for the Preservation of Wild Animals, Birds, and Fish in Africa.