The Recollections of William Finaughty Elephant Hunter

The Recollections of William Finaughty Elephant Hunter

A â€œcelebrated hunter.â€-- Frederick Courteney Selous

â€œThe Greatest of the English elephant hunters.â€-- John Guille Millais

Taken from the years well before and during the Anglo-Boer War, William Finaughty, one of the great, early ivory hunters told his African adventures to a publisher who owned the pioneer paper The Rhodesian Journal. Finaughty was an adventurer, rogue, and hunter extraordinaire, who survived the death that awaited many early elephant hunters, bagging over five hundred tuskers in five years, as well as living through the intrigues with which the early South Africa was fraught.

'Bill' Finaughty even shot five elephants with four bullets, a feat that is typical of this book. That he hunted entirely with a muzzle-loading rifle adds a great deal of zest to this classic tale of which only 250 copies were printed, and less than half survive today.
Country USA
Manufacturer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Paperback
EANs 9781973753070
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding	Paperback
EANs	9781973753070
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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