The Recollections Of William Finaughty: Elephant Hunter, 1864-1875 By Edward C. Tabler
The Recollections Of William Finaughty: Elephant Hunter, 1864-1875 By Edward C. Tabler
Hardcover
Publisher: A.A. Balkema 1957 Second Edition.
Good- Ex-Library book, 5 stamps (book was discarded) and paste-down were removed from verso of front cover-some netting visible between page 3 and 4. First page and end page are tanned. Shelf rubbed but furthermore clean throughout.(price reduced accordingly)
127pp. Skivertex hardcover. Frontispiece of William Finaughty, aged about 70 at the time.
The journals and experiences of William Finaughty, one of the most successful, professional elephant hunters of southern Africa, with about 500 kills over his career all with a large caliber muzzle-loading rifle.
Only 250 copies were originally published in 1916. These are now extremely scarce!
Told in the straightforward manner of the hunter who lived a life now only dreamed of, this collection of remembrances gives the day to day details of elephant hunting during the transition from muzzle loaders to more modern breech loading firearms. Finaughty made his way the best way he could and never took no for an answer as a hunter and a trader on the furthest of frontiers then known to British adventurers.
