African Bush Adventures by J.A. Hunter(Author of 'Hunter') & Dan Mannix
Highly Collectible 1954 first edition in an excellent condition.
African Bush Adventures by J.A. Hunter(Author of 'Hunter') & Dan Mannix
London: Hamish Hamilton 1954. First Edition. Hard Cover.
Condition: Very Good+. This book is in an excellent condition. The DJ has only some very slight signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
A book by J.A. Hunter the veteran African hunter whose life story was a best seller joined with Dan Mannix to produce a book about the brave men and women who decided to settle in Africa as hunters traders and explorers.
252 pages, bibliography, 16 pages of rare photographs: thrilling accounts by two famous hunters of men and women who risked their lives to make a new life in untamed Africa, including Tippu Tib, Col Grogan, Johnny Boyes, the McQueens, Fritz Schindelar, Leakey, etc.; Czech page 136 "hunting elephants in the Lado Enclave, lions, buffalo and other game"
"This book has 250 pages, no maps, 31 B/W photos and was published in 1954. The book starts with a note from Dan Mannix on the opening of Kenya. In 1951, he talks to John Hunter about the people still alive in the making of Kenya, and to write a book on them, while memories were still fresh. Here the children of pioneers call Kenya as HOME.
The book starts with Tippu Tip (hamid bin mohammed) who explored into inner East Africa well before the Europeans like Livingstone, Stanley, Burton, Speke, and Cameron did. Tippu Tip died in Zanzibar on 13.6.1905. In 1898, Ewart Grogan walked from Cape to Cairo. In 1883 Joseph Thomson when to Victoria Nyanza and back. He died in 1895. Reverand Arthur Fisher went to Uganda in 1892.
Dr Albert Cook was the first doctor to go to East Africa. He discovered relapsing fever, worms causing anemia in natives and cause of sleeping sickness. He was knighted in 1932. He opened hospitals in Uganda. He died in 1950 and along with his wife, he is buried in Namirenbe Cathedral, Uganda.
The McQueens left Dumfries and went to the Kikuyu land in 1896 and struggled. Harold and clifford Hill were the first WHITE HUNTERS in Kenya, followed by Fritz Schindelar, Finch Hatton, Phil Percival and Wally King.
Lord Delamere helped in making of Kenya, went into farming, dairy and politics. Vincent Glenday was posted in the Northern Frontier District (NFD) in 1913 and manned the Fort Moyale. He returned to Nairobi and was later knighted. Robert Foran went into the Kenya Police and wrote many of his books by him. RO Preston built the Uganda Railways and LSB leakey supported the Kikuyu and became their Elder. Whites called him a traitor and the Kikuyu wanted to kill him, because he criticized them for supporting the Mau Mau.
The other book which JA Hunter wrote was "Tales of the African Frontier", which has a similar theme.
