Author: PATTERSON J H
Title: The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and other East African Adventures
Description: London, MacMillan. 1947, reprint. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. reprint in red cloth with gilt to spine, spine slightly faded, book is VG excepting crossed out name at head of fep, cloth boards handling soiled and a little grubby, 351pp +photographs throughout in the text, frontis a group of 8 lion heads shot by the author, The author was working on the railways when they had to deal with an unprecedented occurence of attacks by man eating lions preying on the workers and camp animals, made into a Hollywood film recently, quite a tidy copy apart from the split binding. [ Ian F Hazlehurst | Chief Civil Engineer Dept | Stephenson House | 67-. Very Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: East Africa Big Game Hunting Shooting Edwardian Tsavo Man Eaters Railways


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