Hunting the Elephant in Africa

(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986) 0312401582. A volume in the 'Peter Capstick Adventure Library', the series editor of which is Peter Hathaway Capstick. Text facsimile of the Macmillan edition of 1913, excluding the chart which appeared in the original. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + xv + (iii) + 379, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper a bit edgeworn and rubbed, with tear to lower flap; some foxing to edges and reverse of dustwrapper. Very good, in a good dustwrapper. (Czech: Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, p. 269 [Macmillan edition of 1913]) 'A preeminent elephant hunting title, this details Stigand's big game hunting efforts primarily in British East Africa, North Eastern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and the Lado Enclave. He includes chapters on hunting rhinoceros, buffalo and lion, but relates his encounters with elephants with particular verve. As he states in Chapter 1: "There is something so fascinating and absorbing about elephant hunting that those who have done much of it can seldom take any interest again in any other form of sport." ' - Kenneth Czech, An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1999 .