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Wolhuter, Harry : Memories of a Game-Ranger

Wild Life Protection Society of South Africa, 1965

313 pages (complete). A benign copy. The dustjacket is much worn, torn, scuffed, marked all about. It is sure, secure. The boards are handsome. Gilt titling and illustration. They are fresh and healthy. The contents are companionable. The early and later pages have some foxing. From the preface page onwards the pages are most gratifying. They are sturdy, clean, clear, very certain, congenial, amenable, amiable. fk. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Poor

8th Edition.

Wolhuter, Harry : Memories of a Game-Ranger

(Johannesburg: The Wild Life Protection Society of South Africa, 1961)

8vo; original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); endpaper map; pp. (xvi) + 313 + (iii), incl. index; frontis. portrait; plates and illustrations in text. Dustwrapper edgeworn, with loss to extremities of spine panel; boards a little rubbed; archival tape reinforcing to hinges, which are starting; spine slightly cocked; trace of damp-stain to bottom edge; sporadic, moderate foxing. Fair to good. "I suppose there can be few if any men in all Africa possessing a deeper knowledge and wider experience of bush lore in all its phases and in his prime he held all the qualities requisite to give effect to that knowledge and experience; a powerful frame, an iron constitution; cool courage and quiet determination. In addition, his complete mastery of the local Bantu language, and acquaintance with their customs, earned him exceptional liking and respect among the tribal natives. His unique exploit in killing, single-handed, and armed only with a knife, a full grown male lion which had seized, and was carrying him off, was in itself a feat rendering superfluous any further tributes to his rare courage and coolness; but it is worth remarking that in many hazards - happily all safely surmounted - which he has since incurred in the course of his duties, his nerve has shown itself to be just as calm and steady as it was when he underwent that terrible experience." - From the Foreword by J. Stevenson-Hamilton

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