GORILLA HUNTER. By Fred G. Merfield with Harry Miller.

(1956) 1956 1st US edition. 8vo (141 x 214mm). Ppxiv,238. B/w photograph plates. Black boards, silver-gilt titles to spine.

This is the US edition of Gorillas were my Neighbours, published by Longmans, Green and Co., London 1956". Fred Merfield has hunted wild animals in the French Cameroons for 35 years, but he is not a 'sportsman.' He is a professional hunter, collecting rare animals for museums and zoos, and his speciality is the gorilla, the largest of the apes and one of the rarest". "Fascinating record of [the author's] adventures and discoveries ...unsurpassed for excitement in contemporary fiction". Studying gorillas, and occasionally shooting them, as well as elephant hunting, in the Congo and the Cameroons. Chapters include: The great gorillas of Ambam; The Maka cannibals; Chimps, Chogas and gorillas; Big game hunters; L'Inspecteur de Chasse; The ghost of the Sanaga grasslands; The woman chieftain of Cheke; The silent city of Rei Bouba; The Mendjim Mey; Shootman's woman; Jungle housekeeper; Good-bye gorillas.