Rare African hunting exploration books includes the classic accounts of the renowned African explorers and their hunting adventures.

Thomas Victor Bulpin (1918-1999) was a South African writer. He was a man of enormous talent and intellect, and a prolific writer.

Aptly dedicated to that special band of adventurers known as professional ivory hunters, the author talks about men like George Rushby, Jim Sutherland and more men who went to Africa in search of adventure and found more than the dose they sought.

"Bvekenya (S. C. Barnard to give him his real name) is almost a legend in the wilderness and on the great Limpopo river. Here he relives the strange adventures of ivory poaching, blackbirding and outlawry, which made him one of the most colourful of all personalities in Africa. We read of the hunts, fights, escapades and adventures of a man who was an outlaw for twenty years, an adventurer of the wilds who defied the police of three countries and fought a one-man war with complete success against all control and authority. The story of the king of the ivory poachers, as told by himself to T. V. Bulpin."

A well-informed guide to the various territories comprising Southern Africa.

Scarce book about East Africa and the southern Indian Ocean, or sea of Zanj comprising Madagascar, the Mascarenes (Mauritius, Reunion, Rodriguez), the Seychelles, and the Comoros.

The sea in question is the Sea of Zanj, the Indian Ocean and its islands off the coast of Eastern Africa - Seychelles, Comoros, Zanzibar and Pemba, Madagascar, the Mascarenhas.

"To the Transvaal, in fact, have come a remarkable collection of human beings, attracted there from the ends of the earth in hope of finding their heart's desire of freedom or fortune in the wilderness. Through the years they have adventured and explored, argued, intrigued, and fought to secure their ends. Of them all, many prospered and the purposeful trails they blazed have grown into mighty highways. But many more simply played their part in the human drama, and then vanished from the scene entirely; their ambitions and dreams and schemes trampled in the dust; the trails they blazed quite overgrown; their purpose forgotten; their hopes for ever lost."

Fascinating background to the early days in Natal,from pioneers to explorers and adventurers.

Bulpin recounts episodes in the history of the South African Republic from the discovery of gold in the mid 1870's to the outbreak of the Boer War.

One of the scarcest of Bulpin's books, this is also an important contribution to the literature of the circus. Tickey the Clown was beloved by generations of South African circus goers in the golden age of Boswell's Circus.

A biographical narrative of the remarkable life of Johan Colenbrander, one of the most resolute of all the frontiersmen who lived and fought their way through the wild events during the early years. He was a protégé of Dunn and hence on friendly terms with the Zulus. Later he aided Rhodes with the Matabele.

The history of Natal and the Zulu Country.

With notices of the Lunar Mountains and the sources of the White Nile As contained in The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, volume the twenty-ninth. The Royal Geographical Society expedition left Bagamoyo on the Tanzania coast, opposite Zanzibar, in June, 1857. Burton and John Hanning Speke went west to Kaze, now Tabora, then to the Malagarasi River and Lake Tanganyika. On their return, Speke travelled north to Lake Victoria and back, from Kaze.

Great Victorian scholar-adventurer recounts long journey to British diplomatic post at Fernando Po, expeditions to African mainland. Invaluable descriptions of African tribal rituals concerning birth, marriage and death, and of tribal fetishism, ritual murder, cannibalism and more.

Edward North Buxton (1840-1924) was a British conservationist and politician.

First trip was to British East Africa for lion, rhino, buffalo and plains game. His second trip was again through the same country and more into Sudan where he bagged dangerous and plains game and enjoyed excellent sport.

Together with Short Stalks, second series. Comprising trips in Somaliland, Sinai, the Eastern Desert of Egypt, Crete, the Carpathian Mountains and Daghestan. Covers a wide range of sport after large game; Africa, India, wild sheep in Sardinia, chamois, Rocky Mountains, elk, wild goat, ibex, bear, reindeer.

A book of stirring episodes collected from the works of mighty hunters.

A detailed 2 volume narrative, complete with plates and maps. Casati arrived in Africa in 1880 and was the first European to see the Ruwenzori Mountains. He was with Emin Pasha when Stanley arrived in 1888.

Chadwick earned a living selling the ivory and lion skins from his tropies. A more than generous dose of big game hunting between the covers of this work

Author's adventures in the African bush, tracking down man eating lions and rogue elephants.

A two part story of the adventures of a brave baboon and of the boy he saved from death.

Cuthbert Christy (1863-1932) qualified in medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He travelled in Ceylon, East Africa, Uganda, Southern Nigeria, the Gold Coast and the Cameroons. After official posts in the Congo and the Sudan he served during the First World War in Africa and Mesopotamia. He died as a result of being gored by a buffalo while on a zoological investigation in the Congo.

In the Central African forests for elephant, white rhinoceros and buffalo as well as okapi.

A memorable big game hunting book that should be required reading of all hunters and by all collectors. Daly's work is often quoted by other authors.

The sports of the field have always appealed to the British Army,in peace and at war. Adventures in sport during war are vividly brought to life in this assembly of anecdotal descriptions of hunts, horse races, pig-sticking and polo games.

112 pages of hunting stories and articles.

Big game hunting in various regions of Africa at the turn of the last century, bagging elephant, lion, buffalo, leopard, white rhino, hippo, oribi, bushbuck, waterbuck, topi, kob, roan antelope, tiang and other game. Dickinson lists three 'don'ts' when advising how to treat bearers. "Don't ignore a good gun bearer's good advice because you think you know a thing or two. Don't promise a native a thing you can't do. Don't on any account lose your temper."

Dickinson's approach is systematic, describing the haunts of each major species of wild game in East Africa including lion, kudu, oryx, eland and other plains game, particularly near the Guaso Nyiro and the River Tana. There is an excellent chapter on stalking buffalo.

The author's autobiography of his experiences collecting and preparing specimens for the museum. He collected animals in Africa and Asia including elephant, Marco Polo sheep and lion.

Travel in Abyssinia, now Ethiopia. Interesting account of the only country in Africa that was never colonized.

Author took a prolonged journey to Africa starting at the Suez Canal and moving along the east coast, around the Cape and up the west coast of the continent. They visited several Red Sea ports on their way from Suez to Durban and then turned inland to Pretoria and Cape Town before completing the circuit to Brindisi by steaming up to Cameroon and Sierra Leone and touching on the Canary Islands. In addition they visited Madagascar. Author traces the main expeditions into the interior of Africa for the 1870 till 1890 period.

Vivienne de Watteville (1900-1957) was a British writer and adventurer.

In 1923 she and her father started a safari trip through Kenya, Uganda and the Belgian Congo, hunting for trophies for the natural history museum in Berne, Switzerland. When her father was killed by a lion, Watteville finished the trip alone. In this her first book, she describes her experiences on safari.

This book tells of her photo safari in 1928-29. She spent two months in a hut on Mount Kenya and met the British mountaineers Shipton and Tilman.

In March 1925 the Prince of Wales set out with the battle-cruiser Repulse for a journey to British West Africa and to the three republics in South Africa which were "well disposed". Most is a travelogue. There after Argentina, Chile and the Andes were visited.

This work is the result of five years' study of the fauna of Somaliland made while residing in the Somali country.

The book discusses the early development of South Africa and provides interesting glimpses of what the traveller of the 1920's saw in South Africa.

Fitzpatrick (1862 - 1931) was a South African statesman who acted as a go-between for Jameson and Rhodes. After the Jameson Raid he was imprisoned. Superb account of events in the Transvaal leading up to the Boer War.

Contains Gray's four original journals and 120 photographs. He was guided by Philip Percival across the Serengeti. Certainly one of the great adventures of the 'golden age' of African hunting.

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