Hunting the Elephant in Africa and Other Recollections of Thirteen Years’ Wanderings

Facsimile reproduction of the 1913 edition, with a new frontispiece and introduction and bibliographical note by Prof James Casada. xvi, xvi, 380pp, with occasional illustrations and complete with fold out table on the measurements of mature male elephants. In brown cloth boards with gilt motif and lettering. 8v0. Covers a little worn and lightly cracked along spine. Text block edges tone. A little faint spotting on endpapers, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original worn dust jacket, moderately rubbed and chipped at edges, minor loss at spine base and small nick on lower edge. Stigland, renown as one of the great African hunters in the first part of the 20th century; this volume was written while he served as British Representative in the Lado Enclave in 1910. The hunting tales are told modestly, but passionately, while his reflections on the Africa he found – its landscape, people and culture – are profound albeit very much of their time.