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Informationen zum Autor Frederick Courteney Selous 1851 - 1917 was 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 Quartermain 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. Going to South Africa when he was 19, he 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. Klappentext In this unique study! a nineteenth-century conservationist reveals the adventures and discoveries of his extensive explorations in south-east Africa. Zusammenfassung In this unique study! first published in 1893! the conservationist Frederic Courteney Selous documents his eleven-year expedition to record endangered wildlife in south-east Africa. Also recalling the region's culture and commerce! and hostile encounters with native peoples! he provides a diverse perspective on Africa in the late nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Return to England in 1881; 2. Drought and heat; 3. Collecting specimens of natural history; 4. Prepare for journey to the Mazoe and Sabi rivers; 5. First expedition sent by Lo Bengula against the Batauwani; 6. Break up camp; 7. Return to the Transvaal; 8. Ride to Bulawayo; 9. Chop out the tusks of the dead elephants; 10. Return to England in 1886; 11. A rough country; 12. Reach our first camp on the Magoi-ee river; 13. Resolve to visit the Barosti chief Lewanika; 14. Arrange for journey to the Upper Mazoe; 15. Leave Tete; 16. Mount Hampden; 17. Portuguese claim to Mashunaland; 18. Mashunaland; 19. Mashunaland continued; 20. The expedition to Mashunaland continued; 21. The expedition to Mashunaland continued; 22. History of the occupation of Manica by the British South Africa Company; 23. Reach Fort Salisbury; 24. Travel from Motoko's country to Umtali; 25. Remarks concerning the relative merits of large and small bore rifles; 26. Further hunting reminiscences; Index....
