Bell of Africa, The Greatest Elephant Hunter of All Time, W D M Bell, Compiled by Col. Townsend Whelen
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236 pages. Previous owner name, Gerrit Forbes, on the first endpaper. Small bookseller emblem, Kingstons Ltd, Rhodesia, on the first pastedown. Very good cloth hardcover, dust jacket with very light edgewear now in protective mylar. 'Karamojo' Bell writes of days when there was little or no restriction on the pursuit of big game and when elephant tusks fetched a handsome sum, when savage tribes were still a menac e and African potentates held sway, when there were bands of marauding slavers and vast stretches of unknown territory. A classic African hunting book. Gerrit Forbes was a very good friend of another well known hunter, Elmer Keith. Gerrit Forbes and his brother are mentioned as being on Safari with Bell across Africa. Mailing anywhere for $20.