Maneaters and Marauders by John Taylor

Maneaters and Marauders (Collectible Safari Press Edition in Dust Jacket)

John Taylor's Dramatic Accounts of Man-Eating Lions and Rogue Elephants from Nyasaland and Mozambique

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Maneaters and Marauders
• Author: John Taylor
• Publisher: Safari Press Inc., Long Beach, California
• Publication Date: 2005
• ISBN-13: 9781571573117
• ISBN-10: 1571573119
• Edition Details: Safari Press edition, 2005.
• Binding: Publisher's green cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt with the Safari Press rhino logo, in illustrated colour dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Octavo hardcover.

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
• Exterior / Boards: Dark green cloth boards with the spine lettered in gilt and bearing the Safari Press rhino logo. The boards are protected by the dust jacket.
• Interior: The paper is clean and white, with no foxing or markings to the preliminary pages.
• The Dust Jacket: Present. The illustrated colour jacket is bright and clean on the front and spine. The back panel shows light creasing along the bottom edge and carries a priced barcode label; the jacket is priced at $29.95. Protected in a Mylar sleeve.

Synopsis & Historical Value

Maneaters and Marauders gathers John Taylor's accounts of the most dangerous game he met in a hunting career spanning some 35 years as an ivory hunter. Man-eating lions feature prominently, alongside rogue elephants, buffalo and crocodiles.

The setting is chiefly Nyasaland and Mozambique, where Taylor was repeatedly called upon by local villagers to deal with a man-eating cat or a marauding elephant raiding their crops. The result is a firsthand record of life on the African hunting frontier, told in the direct voice of a working hunter.

This Safari Press edition, published in Long Beach, California in 2005, makes the text available in a handsome green cloth binding with an illustrated jacket. It is a sound collectible copy for libraries of African big-game hunting literature and Africana.

Author Profile: John "Pondoro" Taylor

John Howard "Pondoro" Taylor (1904-1969) was an Irish big-game hunter and ivory hunter who became an author, best known for his writing on African hunting in the Nyasaland and Mozambique region.

His other titles include Big Game and Big Game Rifles (1948), African Rifles and Cartridges (1948), Shadows of Shame and Pondoro: Last of the Ivory Hunters.

Maneaters and Marauders John Taylor · Pondoro Taylor hunting book · man-eating lions Africa book · Safari Press big game hunting · ivory hunter memoir · Nyasaland and Mozambique hunting · African hunting classics Africana