Hunting Big Game: In Africa and Asia

by Townsend Col. Whelen

Overview

Here are the most exciting big game hunting yarns ever written about Africa and Asia. Ten superb stories on hunting lions, elephants, tigers, buffaloes, leopards and sheep, with chapters on big game rifles, equipment and knives.
The authors are Selous, Baker, Kirby, Neumann, and Litledale—the most expert and fearless hunters ever to track big game.
Townsend Whelen—himself a famous hunter—has been collecting these stories for years. His selections are the best and most exciting accounts of absolutely accurate true adventures. All these stories are now buried in works out of print or in limited editions unavailable to the hunting enthusiast.
These tales open an almost entirely unknown world of sport: that of hunting man-killing big game alone, without the vast equipment and caravans used by modern, organized hunters and explorers. The authors tracked in unexplored countries, living and surviving and earning a livelihood by the rifle alone.
The comments of the writers on the technical sides of their rifles ammunition and equipment are extremely valuable to all hunters. Townsend Whelen’s forewords to each chapter, and his comments on the equipment and methods of the hunters add immeasurably to the quality of this unique collection.
These anthologies make fascinating reading for the practical hunter or the armchair outdoorsman. Whelen has dug deeply into the literature of hunting and has selected what, in his expert opinion, are the best big game hunting stories of all times. They have been chosen with two points in mind: first for extreme readability and adventure; and second, for the technical hunting information in them. All the stories rank high on both sides.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811767286
Publisher:	Stackpole Books
Publication date:	03/28/2018
Series:	Stackpole Classics , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	373
Sales rank:	273,857
File size:	6 MB

Table of Contents

I Introduction Townsend Whelen vii

II Frederick Courteney Selous

1 Introduction 1

2 Early Ivory Hunting 8

3 The Audacity and Perseverance of Lions 22

4 A Day with Elephants 31

III William Cotton Oswell

1 Introduction Sir Samuel W. Baker 45

2 African Game and Rifles 51

3 Rhinos and Buffaloes 60

4 Adventures with Lions 76

5 The African Elephant and Hippo 90

6 Second Expedition to South Africa 102

7 Later Visits to South Africa 131

IV Sir Samuel W. Baker

1 Introduction 153

2 The Tiger in India 155

3 Buffalo Hunting-And Weapons-in Ceylon 184

4 Boar Hunting with a Knife 195

5 The Rifle of a Past Half Century 204

V Arthur H. Neumann

1 Introduction 223

2 Early Days in British East Africa 227

3 Remarks on Rifles and Ammunition 239

4 Mauled by a Elephant 241

5 Further Hunting Adventures 259

VI St. George Littledale

1 Introduction 277

2 The Marco Polo Sheep of the Pamir 279

VII Frederick Vaughan Kirby

1 Introduction 291

2 Lion Hunting 292

3 An Adventure with a Hill Leopard 315

4 The African Game Rifle 324