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MUIRHEAD, J. T. Ivory Poaching and Cannibals in Africa.

Catalogue: Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

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Lot 279
MUIRHEAD, J. T. Ivory Poaching and Cannibals in Africa.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. First edition. Publisher's red cloth. 8 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches; viii, 296 pp.; frontispiece, half-title. Extremities lightly rubbed, one or two spots to cloth, light foxing to endpapers, booksellers ticket to rear pastedown.
"Muirhead earned a living poaching elephant particularly in the Belgian Congo and in Portuguese East Africa. His encounters with big game are numerous, and his writing style is quite lively. Besides big tuskers, he also relates his adventures with lion and buffalo. As he notes, 'An elephant-poacher leads a hard life and earns all the ivory he gets'" (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 205.


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Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11am EDT