BUFFALO, ELEPHANT and BONGO: ALONE IN THE SAVANNAS AND RAIN FORESTS OF THE CAMEROON. By Reinald von Meurers.

(1989) 1999 1st English language edition. 8vo (151 x 236mm). Ppviii,233. Colour and b/w photographs, patterned end-papers. Ruled borders and bongo head stamped in black to rust coloured cloth, spine titled in black. Green cloth slip-case. Edition limited to 1,000 signed and numbered copies.

An account of many hunting trips into the interior of Cameroon in search of elephant, bongo, buffalo, sitatunga, giant forest hog, bushpig and dwarf buffalo. The author organises his own safaris and carries them out only in the company of local helpers. Includes a chapter on organising your own hunting trip, as well as much incidental useful advice. This first edition is a more handsome production than the later US 'trade edition' (which is perfectly fine in itself, let it be said). The book was first published privately by the author in Germany in 1989 as "Bongo Bueffel Sitatunga: zehn Jahre Jagd auf eigene Faust in den Urwaldern Kameruns" (Bongo, buffalo, sitatunga: ten years single-handed in the primeval forests of Cameroon).