Frederick Courtney Selous, most noted of southern Africa's legendary big game hunters, arrived in "Zambesia" (later Rhodesia) in 1872. His first eight years as a professional elephant hunter are encountered in the wild-life classic, A Hunter's Wanderings In Africa(1881) reproduced as Vol. 14 in the Rhodesiana Reprint Library. Travel and Adventure appeared in 1893, and covers the subsequent 11-year period. By then he had travelled the region widely: from the Transvaal in the south, across the Zambesi to the Kafue in present-day Zambia, and from the edge of the Kalahari Desert in the west to the Mocambique coast in the east. By this time he had given up the ivory trail in favour of collecting wild-life specimens for museums overseas. As he explored, he mapped the territory, studied the African tribes, observed the fauna and flora, met with other travellers, hunters and prospectors, became involved in gripping adventures, and pondered the political future of this "far interior of South Africa" It is against this rich background that he has painted his picture of pre-Pioneer Rhodesia. In the hands of a less skilled narrator this book might have been no more than a good work of reference, but Selous is first and foremost an engaging story-teller.