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The Boone and Crockett Club has brought back to life Frederick Courteney Selous' epic African adventure in a meticulously remastered, high-quality paperback edition. Follow noted adventurer Selous as he spends nine years amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa as a professional hunter beginning in 1871 at the young age of 20. In his preface he notes, “...my pages are naturally chiefly devoted to the ferae naturae amongst which I have been constantly living. Some of my conclusions with regard to lions, rhinoceroses, or other animal, may differ from those arrived at by other men equally competent to give an opinion; but, at all events, they are the result of a long personal experience of the beasts themselves, and have not been influenced in any way by the often unreliable stories of ‘old hunters.’ I have only to add that in the following pages I have done my best to express myself in plain, intelligible English; and if I have not succeeded in this respect as well as I could wish, I trust that my shortcomings will be leniently judged when it is remembered that the last nine years of my life have been passed amongst savages, during which time I have not undergone the best training for a literary effort.” Selous delivers with a very entertaining and informative manuscript that will delight hunters, adventurers, and sportsmen of today. “A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa” is a part of the B&C Classics series launched in 2012 by the Boone and Crockett Club. Each book in the series was authored by a member of B&C in the late 1800s or early 1900s and was hand-selected by a committee of vintage hunting literature experts. Readers will be taken back to a time when hunting trips didn’t happen over a weekend, but were adventures spanning weeks, months, even years.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781940860053 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Boone and Crockett Club |
| Publication date: | 06/07/2014 |
| Pages: | 488 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d) |
Table of Contents
| Part I | ||
| Chapter I | ||
| Land at Algoa Bay | ||
| Diamond Fields | ||
| Trading Trip through Griqua land | ||
| The Chief Manchuran | ||
| Batlapin Village | ||
| Griqua Town | ||
| Bushman's Lair | ||
| Klas Lucas, the Koranna Chief | ||
| Bechuanas at Lange Berg | ||
| Appearance of Country | ||
| Return to Diamond Fields | ||
| Preparations for Second Expedition | ||
| Chapter II | ||
| Kuruman | ||
| Seventy-eight Elephants shot | ||
| Bechuana Chief, Montsua | ||
| Secheli | ||
| Bamangwato | ||
| Scenery | ||
| Hard-working Missionaries | ||
| First Giraffe-hunt | ||
| Lost in the Veldt | ||
| Great Sufferings | ||
| Cold | ||
| Hunger | ||
| Thirst | ||
| Ninety Hours' Fast | ||
| Loss of "Salted" Horse | ||
| Heartlessness of Natives | ||
| The Lost found | ||
| First Lion seen | ||
| Tati Gold Fields | ||
| Mashuna Diggings | ||
| Chapter III | ||
| Massacre of a Tribe | ||
| Native Dress | ||
| Remarkable Scenery | ||
| Lobengula, King of the Matabele | ||
| Umziligazi | ||
| Slaughter of the "Headmen" | ||
| Battle of Zwang Indaba | ||
| Lions | ||
| Piet Jacobs | ||
| Terrible Adventure with a Lion | ||
| Mashunas | ||
| Elands | ||
| Start Hunting with "Cigar," the Hottentot | ||
| Chapter IV | ||
| Eland shot | ||
| My First Elephant | ||
| "Cigar's" Skill in hunting Elephants | ||
| Abundance of Game | ||
| Successful Bags | ||
| Drought | ||
| Rain | ||
| Hardship | ||
| Maiming Elephants | ||
| Stabbing from Trees | ||
| A Murder and Execution | ||
| "Bill" and the Crocodile | ||
| Chapter V | ||
| "Inxwala" Dance | ||
| Matabele War Dress | ||
| Black Rhinoceros | ||
| Bull Elephants | ||
| Linquasi Valley | ||
| Permanent Encampment | ||
| Hunting in the "Fly" | ||
| Profitable Shooting | ||
| Sketch of Country | ||
| Depopulation by Zulus | ||
| Varieties of Fauna | ||
| Sable Antelope | ||
| A "Skerm" | ||
| Extracts from Journal | ||
| A Grand Elephant-hunt | ||
| Narrow Escape of a Kafir | ||
| Chapter VI | ||
| Journal continued | ||
| A Rest | ||
| Fresh Honey | ||
| Start after Elephants | ||
| Two Bulls shot | ||
| Tramp for Water | ||
| A Supperless Night | ||
| A Fortnight's Hunting | ||
| Burying the Ivory | ||
| Rejoin Wood | ||
| Black Rhinoceros | ||
| A Bees' Nest | ||
| White Rhinoceros | ||
| Six Bull Elephants shot | ||
| A Kafir killed | ||
| Disastrous Elephant-hunt | ||
| Narrow Escape | ||
| Accident | ||
| Return to Waggons | ||
| Chapter VII | ||
| Bad Weather | ||
| Slow Travelling | ||
| Mr. and Lieut, Garden | ||
| Daka | ||
| Leave the Waggons | ||
| Elephant-hunt; first of Season | ||
| A Bath of Blood | ||
| First Glimpse of Falls | ||
| Difficult Country | ||
| Magnificent Panorama | ||
| Grandeur of Victoria Falls of Zambesi | ||
| Herd of Buffalo | ||
| Banks of Zambesi | ||
| Double Lunar Rainbow | ||
| Pitfalls for Game | ||
| Chapter VIII | ||
| Koodoo | ||
| Impala | ||
| Tenacity of Life | ||
| Waterbuck | ||
| A new Servant | ||
| The "Chobe" River | ||
| Pookoo Antelopes | ||
| Buffaloes | ||
| A wounded Cow | ||
| Elephant-shooting | ||
| Lions at Night | ||
| Abundance of Buffalo | ||
| The "Pookoo Flats" | ||
| Mosquitoes and Tsetse Flies | ||
| Chapter IX | ||
| Hippopotami | ||
| Lechwe Antelopes | ||
| Difficult Shooting | ||
| Elephants on the "Chobe" | ||
| A Plucky little Calf | ||
| A Canoe Ride | ||
| Makubas and their Island | ||
| Return to "Pookoo Flats" | ||
| 400 lbs. of Ivory | ||
| Chapter X | ||
| Pookoo Antelope | ||
| Shooting Lechwe | ||
| Up the Chobe | ||
| Strange Experience with Elephant | ||
| Canoe Trip through Marsh Lands of Chobe | ||
| Buffalo | ||
| Island Inhabitants | ||
| Palm Wine | ||
| Situtunga Antelopes | ||
| "Umbaracarungwe" Island | ||
| Dense Thorn-bush | ||
| Chapter XI | ||
| Adventure with Elephants | ||
| Return to Mainland | ||
| Two Elephant-hunts | ||
| Ten killed | ||
| Schinderhutte; Tragic End | ||
| Two Buffalo Bulls | ||
| Encounter with a Lioness | ||
| Return to Tati, and England | ||
| Part II | ||
| Chapter XII | ||
| Land at Algoa Bay, 1876 | ||
| The Giraffe and its Habits | ||
| Giraffe-hunts | ||
| Amandebele Marauders | ||
| Adventure with Lion | ||
| Narrow Escape | ||
| Westbeech the Trader | ||
| Chase after Gemsbuck | ||
| Horse killed by Lions; wound the Male; found dead by Bushmen soon after | ||
| Chapter XIII | ||
| The South African Lion | ||
| Variation of Type | ||
| Habitats | ||
| Appearance | ||
| Colour | ||
| Habits | ||
| Average Size | ||
| Unclean Feeders | ||
| Dangerous Antagonists | ||
| A sad Story | ||
| Lioness attacks Camp by night | ||
| Horse wounded | ||
| Ruthven shot | ||
| Lioness killed | ||
| Shoot magnificent Lion and two Lionesses | ||
| Chapter XIV | ||
| Start for the Zambesi | ||
| Death of Lieutenant Grandy | ||
| Fever | ||
| Scarcity of Elephants | ||
| Buffaloes | ||
| Anecdotes of | ||
| Disposition, size of Horns, etc. | ||
| Spotted Bushbuck | ||
| Send Waggons to the Matabele Country | ||
| Prepare for Expedition across the Zambesi | ||
| Chapter XV | ||
| Cross the Zambesi | ||
| Great Heat | ||
| Mwemba | ||
| Lioness shot | ||
| Lorenco Monteiro | ||
| Disturbance between Batongas and Shakundas | ||
| Leave Chaiza | ||
| Batonga Musician | ||
| Crocodile shot | ||
| Villages burnt by the Shakundas | ||
| Striped Eland shot | ||
| Hippopotami | ||
| Reach Nhaucoe | ||
| Joaquim Mendonca | ||
| Canyemba | ||
| Cruel Treatment of Slaves | ||
| Smallpox | ||
| Donkeys killed by Hyaenas | ||
| Start for the Manica Country | ||
| Konze Antelope | ||
| Continuous Rains | ||
| Chapter XVI | ||
| Scarcity of Game and Provisions | ||
| Reach Sitanda's Kraal | ||
| Mosquitoes | ||
| Lukanga River | ||
| Lechwe Antelopes | ||
| Fever | ||
| Dismal Prospects | ||
| Arrival of Canyemba | ||
| Buy a Kafir | ||
| Start for the Zambesi | ||
| Reach Mendonca's Island | ||
| Start for the Matabele Country | ||
| Inyoga | ||
| Reach Inyati | ||
| Chapter XVII | ||
| Hunting Trip to Mashuna Country | ||
| Camp attacked by five Lions | ||
| Shoot variety of Game | ||
| Accident to Goulden | ||
| Griqua Hunters | ||
| Many Elephants killed | ||
| Shoot Sable Antelope Bull | ||
| "Situngweesa," Mashuna "god," and Lobengula | ||
| Enchanted Reed | ||
| Tragic Death of Quabeet: torn in pieces by Elephant | ||
| Elephanthunt | ||
| Charged by Infuriated Cow and knocked down | ||
| Horse wounded | ||
| Twenty-two Elephants bagged | ||
| Chapter XVIII | ||
| Hunting Trip to Mashuna Country continued | ||
| An Eland Bull | ||
| Hanyane River | ||
| Elephants | ||
| Hippopotami trapped in Pool | ||
| Game-nets | ||
| Notes on "Fly"-bites | ||
| Bush Pigs | ||
| Sable Antelope Bull | ||
| Rhinoceros | ||
| Hunting in the Machabi Hills | ||
| Rhinoceros Cow | ||
| Elands | ||
| Male Sable Antelope pursued and attacked by Wild Dog | ||
| Nineteen Elephants shot | ||
| Oribi Antelope and its Distribution | ||
| Standard-winged Nightjar | ||
| Poor "Bill" killed by Crocodile | ||
| Rhinoceros and little Calf | ||
| Shoot Lioness at Viljoen's Camp | ||
| Christmas with Rev. W. Elliott | ||
| Chapter XIX | ||
| Visit the Transvaal | ||
| Start again for the Interior | ||
| Leave Bamangwato | ||
| Mahakabe Pan | ||
| Eland-shooting | ||
| Reach the Botletlie River | ||
| Scarcity of Water | ||
| Lion shot | ||
| Giraffes | ||
| Gemsbuck-hunting | ||
| Starving Bushmen | ||
| Gemsbuck shot | ||
| Leave the Botletlie | ||
| Reach Sode-Garra | ||
| Start for the Mababe | ||
| No Water | ||
| Sufferings of the Oxen | ||
| Abandon the Waggons | ||
| Reach the Mababe Plain | ||
| Water at last | ||
| Endurance of Oxen | ||
| Troop of Hyaenas | ||
| Sport with Lions | ||
| Arrival of Collison and French | ||
| Sad death of Matthew Clarkson | ||
| Chapter XX | ||
| Start Northwards | ||
| Elephants and Buffalo shot | ||
| Antelope found dead | ||
| Long Palaver with Mamele | ||
| Relics of a Mission Party | ||
| Shoot Lioness | ||
| Reach Site of Linyanti | ||
| Prayers for Good Luck | ||
| Find Skeleton of Kafir devoured by Lion | ||
| Buffaloes and Hippopotamus shot | ||
| Visit to the Grave of a Great Warrior | ||
| Vain Attempt to propitiate his Ghost | ||
| Seven Elephants killed, one wounded | ||
| French follows the wounded one with two Kafirs | ||
| His long Absence<
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