The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter
by SUTHERLAND, James
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co., 1912. Reprint of November 1912. Half-Leather. Very Good. xviii, 324 p. 23 cm. 53 b&w illustrations. Bound in quarter leather with marbled paper boards. A little foxing to title page and frontispiece tissue guard. Discoloured lower corner pages 22-23 and tear at bottom of 205.
The memoirs of a world-record-holding elephant hunter. Besides describing the hunt, Sutherland meets man-eating lions, snakes, hippos, leopards, African natives, slave girls, etc. The author does not recommend elephant meat, being "coarse-fibred and without any flavour" but finds the trunk "by far the most palatable portion of the elephant." This window into a vanished age is not for the squeamish or politically correct.
The memoirs of a world-record-holding elephant hunter. Besides describing the hunt, Sutherland meets man-eating lions, snakes, hippos, leopards, African natives, slave girls, etc. The author does not recommend elephant meat, being "coarse-fibred and without any flavour" but finds the trunk "by far the most palatable portion of the elephant." This window into a vanished age is not for the squeamish or politically correct.
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- Bookseller
- Attic Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 103316
- Title
- The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter
- Author
- SUTHERLAND, James
- Format/Binding
- Half-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint of November 1912
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- History, Africa, Sports, Hunting, Elephant Hunting, Big Game Hunting, Animals, Lions, Snakes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Hunting;
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- Reprint
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