Books with author Frederick Courteney Selous

Frederick Courteney Selous was one of the pre-eminent big game hunters of the nineteenth century.A friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and Frederick Russell, he also inspired the novelist H. Rider Haggard to write the Allan Quartermain adventure series.His life was full of adventure, and his book, A Hunter’s Wandering in Africa, is a brilliantly engaging account that takes the reader back in time to the heart of Africa.He records in minute detail the fascinating flora and fauna that he saw around him as he traipsed further and further into this unexplored continent.For nine years he wandering across the lands of central and southern Africa, exploring, hunting and recording what he saw. His account is one of the most fascinating accounts of this great continent in the mid-nineteenth century.Although it may seem contradictory to modern sensibilities, Selous the master-hunter was also a great conservationist who did a great deal to preserve wildlife in Africa and improve our knowledge of some of these spectacular animals.He donated many of the animals that he shot to the Natural History Museum, which has allowed for their scientific study for over a century. He also acknowledged the damage that hunting was having upon wildlife and so after his death the Selous Game Reserve was set up to preserve 19,000 square miles of undisturbed nature.“Selous was a meticulous observer and recorder of nature who often became involved in academic debates involving zoology.” History in Africa“Selous is the most famous hunter in all of Africa.” The American"Since the days of Baldwin there has not been published a book on South African sporting which equals in value and interest the volume brought out by Mr. Selous." Academy“He led a singularly adventurous and fascinating life, with just the right alternations between the wilderness and civilization. He helped spread the borders of his people's land. He added much to the sum of human knowledge and interest.” Theodore Roosevelt.Frederick Courteney Selous was an explorer, military officer, professional hunter and conservationist. He first visited Africa in 1872, at the age of nineteen, and for the next nine years he hunted and explored over the little-known regions north of the Transvaal and south of the Congo Basin. His travels added greatly to the knowledge of the country now known as Zimbabwe. He made valuable ethnological investigations, and throughout his wanderings—often among people who had never previously seen a white man—he maintained cordial relations with the chiefs and tribes, winning their confidence and esteem, notably so in the case of Lobengula. His account of this journey, A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa was first published in 1881. Selous passed away while fighting in World War One at the age of sixty-five in 1917.

"Selous is the most famous hunter in all Africa." — THE AMERICAN"Since the days of Baldwin there has not been published a book on South African sporting which equals in value and interest the volume brought out by Mr. Selous." —ACADEMYFrederick Courteney Selous (1851 – 1917) a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in Southeast Africa. His real-life adventures inspired Sir H. Rider Haggard to create the fictional Allan Quatermain character. Selous was also a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and Frederick Russell Burnham. He was pre-eminent within a select group of big game hunters that included Abel Chapman and Arthur Henry Neumann. With but very few exceptions, 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.In 1881 Selous published his book "A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa: Being a Narrative of Nine Years Spent Amongst the Game of the Far Interior of South Africa." His book, as a matter of course, abounds in hunting stories of the lion, elephant, rhino, ; and, as these are well told, and only just sufficiently flavoured with sporting slang to give them an air of reality or local colour, they are quite as likely to interest stay-at-home readers as sportsmen. We need hardly say that Mr. Selous was a successful sportsman, who made a good thing out of the ivory which he carried away as his spoils. The hunting of big game demands of its devotees many sacrifices. The hunter must be prepared to endure many and varied hardships in the pursuance of his vocation. Hunger, thirst, fatigue, the rigors of climate, the scorching sun by day, the fever-laden mists of night, these and many other trials must he encounter if he would taste to the full the joys of the hunter's life. Going to South Africa when he was 19, Selous travelled from the Cape of Good Hope to Matabeleland, which he reached early in 1872, and where (according to his own account) he was granted permission by Lobengula, King of the Ndebele, to shoot game anywhere in his dominions. From then until 1890, with a few brief intervals spent in England, Selous hunted and explored over the then little-known regions north of the Transvaal and south of the Congo Basin, shooting elephants and collecting specimens of all kinds for museums and private collections. His travels added greatly to the knowledge of the country now known as Zimbabwe. He made valuable ethnological investigations, and throughout his wanderings—often among people who had never previously seen a white man—he maintained cordial relations with the chiefs and tribes, winning their confidence and esteem, notably so in the case of Lobengula. In 1890, Selous entered the service of the British South Africa Company, at the request of magnate Cecil Rhodes, acting as guide to the pioneer expedition to Mashonaland. Over 400 miles of road were constructed through a country of forest, mountain and swamp, and in two and a half months Selous took the column safely to its destination. He then went east to Manica, concluding arrangements which brought the country there under British control. Coming to England in December 1892, he was awarded the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in recognition of his extensive explorations and surveys.

First published in 1881, this book tells the story of Frederick Courteney Selous, generally acknowledged as the greatest African hunter of all time. While Selous was first and foremost a hunter, he was also a close personal friend of President Theodore Roosevelt and a naturalist whose careful observations and succinct writings were read by layman and scholar alike. The African wing of the British Museum of Natural History is named after him, and the crack special forces unit in the Zimbabwe War of Independence was named the Selous Scouts.

First published in 1881, this book tells the story of Frederick Courteney Selous, generally acknowledged as the greatest African hunter of all time. While Selous was first and foremost a hunter, he was also a close personal friend of President Theodore Roosevelt and a naturalist whose careful observations and succinct writings were read by layman and scholar alike. The African wing of the British Museum of Natural History is named after him, and the crack special forces unit in the Zimbabwe War of Independence was named the Selous Scouts.

Percy C. Madeira (1863-1962) was an American big game hunter who in this book writes a complete account of a highly successful hunt through the African Veldt and jungle taken by the author during the winter of 1907-1908. He hunted over much the same country Mr. Roosevelt later covered, and the author returned with one of the most extensive and beautiful collections of African trophies yet fallen to the rifle of one man.It is certain that Mr. Percy C. Madeira had a good time hunting in British East Africa, for it is evidenced on every page of the book he has written. His outfit was complete, porters to the number of forty or more carried his burdens, and there was little for him to do except shoot. And he did. Hartebeest, zebras, gazelles, jackals, wildebeest, impalla, steinbucks, buffaloes, rhinos, and hippopotami, not to mention a blue monkey and a baboon, were among the quarry. A lioness was also bagged.Mr. Madeira was accompanied by his wife, to whom—although she took no active part in the pursuit of game—fell the most stirring experience chronicled in the book.Mrs. Percy Madeira and another of the party became separated from the rest and lost their way for more than twenty-four hours. The incident was grave in its potentialities rather than in its results, but thirst and several attacks by a rhinoceros and a herd of buffalo made their predicament continually dangerous.The book is a very interesting narrative from the pen of a big game hunter telling of his experience in that sportsman's paradise, British East Africa. Starting with the initial arrangements for the big game hunt, the reader is taken step by step through the wildness of jungle and plain into the heart of the animal kingdom and hardly realizes the study of natural history he is absorbing so graphic is Mr. Madeira's story. African big game hunter Selous states: "Mr. Madeira's narrative is a plain, unvarnished tale, modestly yet interestingly told, and I trust that it will have a wide circulation, and it should certainly prove of great interest to all American sportsmen who contemplate a trip to the wonderful hunting grounds of East Africa."This book is the type of a book that combines instruction so entertainingly that one feels anxious to read more about the country after completing the volume. Perhaps the fact that Mrs. Madeira accompanied her husband and was a sharer with him in many exhilarating incidents imparts additional interest to the volume.It must be stated however that the incidental floggings which the author had administered to refractory members of his safari would have best have been omitted from the narrative. They may have been justified in his own mind, but their details have no interest for the healthy minded reader.CONTENTSI. Arrangements For The HuntII. Mombasa, The Uganda Railroad And Nairobi III. The Athi Plains And Mr. Mcmillan's Farm IV. A Buffalo Hunt At Punda Millia V. Natives On The Route VI. Big Game Shooting And Its Dangers VTI. A Rhino And Other Game VIII. A Hard Hunt Near The Tana River IX. A Hippopotamus Pool X. Somali Injured In Encounter With BuffaloesXI. Mrs. Madeira Lost And In Danger XII. Natives And Their Peculiarities XIII. Camping And Its Incidents XIV. Government Protection Of Natives XV. Hunting The Ortx Beisa In Laikipia XVI. Ferocity Of Rhinos And Buffaloes XVIL Elephants Near Us XVIII. Lion Hunting By Night And DayXIX. More Of Lions XX. A Lioness Is KilledXXI. Giraffe Hunting On The Guaso Ntiro XXII. The Uncertainties And Chances In Hunting XXIII. From The Guaso Ntibo To RumerutiXXIV. The Plains Of Laikipia XXV. Concerning Birds And Insects XXVI. Roan Antelope And Leopard XXVII. Muhoroni And Its Game XXVIII. The End Of The TripThis book originally published in 1909 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional imperfection from the original publication or from the reformatting.

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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1907 that recounts his experiences while overseeing the construction of a railroad bridge in what would become Kenya. It is most widely known for recounting the story of a pair of lions that he killed, known as the Tsavo maneaters. This edition contains more than one hundred black-and-white images. The book describes attacks by man-eating lions on the builders of the Uganda Railway in Tsavo, Kenya in 1898 and how the lions were eventually killed by Patterson. It was remarkable that 135 people were killed by the man-eaters in less than a year before Patterson managed to kill them. Col. Patterson's 1907 book itself states that "between them (the lions) no less than 28 Indian coolies, in addition to scores of unfortunate African natives of whom no official record was kept" were killed. This lesser number was confirmed in Dr. Bruce Patterson's definitive book The Lions of Tsavo: Exploring the Legacy of Africa's Notorious Man-Eaters published by McGraw-Hill in 2004. Patterson wrote the book at the Field Museum in Chicago, where the lions are on display. He showed that the greater toll attributed to the lions resulted from a pamphlet written by Col. Patterson in 1925, stating "these two ferocious brutes killed and devoured, under the most appalling circumstances, 135 Indian and African artisans and laborers employed in the construction of the Uganda Railway."

Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson, DSO (1867-1947), known as J. H. Patterson, was an Anglo-Irish soldier, hunter, author and Zionist, best known for his book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures (1907), which details his experiences while building a railway in Kenya. Patterson was born in Forgney, Ballymahon, County Westmeath (now Longford), Ireland, in 1867. His father was Protestant and his mother was Roman Catholic. He joined the British Army at age seventeen, rose quickly through the ranks and eventually attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Essex Yeomanry (he resigned his commission in 1911). In 1898, he was commissioned by the British East Africa Company to oversee the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo river in present-day Kenya and arrived at the site in March of that year. From 1907 until 1909, Patterson was Chief Game Warden in the East Africa Protectorate, an experience he recounts in his second book, In the Grip of Nyika (1909).

First published in 1881, this book tells the story of Frederick Courteney Selous, generally acknowledged as the greatest African hunter of all time. While Selous was first and foremost a hunter, he was also a close personal friend of President Theodore Roosevelt and a naturalist whose careful observations and succinct writings were read by layman and scholar alike. The African wing of the British Museum of Natural History is named after him, and the crack special forces unit in the Zimbabwe War of Independence was named the Selous Scouts.