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Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O.
Reproduction of the original: Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O. by J.G. Millais
Big Game Hunter
This book tells the story of an adventurer, hunter and naturalist in late nineteenth-century Africa, who would inspire novelists such as Rider Haggard and Wilbur Smith. The book describes Selous' extraordinary adventures, from elephant-hunting, and diamond-prospecting, to an early expedition to found Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the European scramble for Africa. The book also examines Selous' relationships with other influential people of the time, including Robert Baden-Powell, Frederick Russell Burnham, Cecil Rhodes, King Lobengula of the Ndebele, and American President Teddy Roosevelt. In Big Game Hunter Norman Etherington paints a skilful portrait of a complex man who started as an elephant hunter but who eventually founded some of the first game reserves in Africa and was acclaimed by both the National History Museum and the Royal Geographical Society for his collections and discoveries. Selous, who was killed by a German sniper bullet in Tanganyika in the First World War, was one of the world's great adventurers.
Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D. S. O.
This biography of the renowned big-game hunter, explorer, and naturalist Frederick Selous was written by his good friend John Guille Millais shortly after his death in 1917. It includes numerous anecdotes, passages from Selous' own books, and letters of correspondence between Selous and Millais, Selous and Theodore Roosevelt, and others. This Juniper Grove edition has been reprinted from the 1919 edition. It includes 16 full-page illustrations.
Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O. Capt. 25th Royal Fusiliers
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Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O., Capt. 25Th Royal Fusiliers
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Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous
"It is with the feeling of a hungry man attacking a banquet that every admirer of Selous will take up Millais' volume... A stirring and adventurous life." -The Review, 1919WITH but very few exceptions, Captain Frederick Courtenay Selous was the last of a long line of oldfashioned pioneer hunters of African big game. By long odds he was the most famous and conspicuous man of his kind. He lived and hunted from the period of the big-calibre smoothbore elephant gun that he loaded at the muzzle with a handful of powder as he ran at full speed, up through the 577 English express rifle of the 70's, to the highly finished Mannlicher of small calibre and tremendous power. A stirring and adventurous l...
