An acknowledged classic on wild life and hunting on both sides of the Zambesi by the most renowned of elephant hunters. Written during an era when ivory was the principal commodity of trade with the interior of Africa, and an era when the continent was still the subject of romantic speculation and prediction, A Hunter's Wanderings quickly became a textbook for aspirant hunters, explorers and naturalists. The book is a detailed narrative of nearly a decade spent in the virgin veld of Matabeleland and Mashonaland during the 1870s and 1880s, and of  exploratory expeditions beyond the Zambesi river. Few men have described the life of an African big game hunter better, or left a richer written legacy on the fauna of the land that later became Rhodesia, than Frederick Courteney Selous. During his lifetime Selous extended the limits of his hunting grounds far beyond the haunts of Africa's elephant and lion: to Asia Minor, North America, Scandinavia and Iceland. Among his intimate friends was President Theodore Roosevelt, himself a hunter of some renown. Roosevelt wrote of Selous: "He led a singularly adventurous and fascinating life, with just the right alternations between the wilderness and civilization. He added much to the sum of human knowledge and interest."

 

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