Author: Blunt, David Enderby.
Title: Elephant.
Description: Neville Spearman. London 1971 1st edition thus. A facsimile reprint of the 1933 edition with the original illustrations but strangely without the original title page. Gilt on red cloth boards. 260pp illustrated 8vo. Bookplate to front pastedown. has been bumped at head of spine. thus G-VG condition in Good dustwrapper (rubbed, worn especially at head & tail of spine. price-clipped). ISBN: 9780854352500 "..., in May 1925 I was offered the appointment of Cultivation Protector in the Elephant Control Scheme section of the Game Preservation Department of Tanganyika ... During my first year as a Cultivation Protector - that is during seven months' actual hunting - I shot ninety elephants. Each year the area under my control was extended and the number of armed Native scouts increased, until the elephant learned to behave themselves ...".

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