A HUNTER`S WANDERINGS IN AFRICA - F.C. SELOUS (SOFTCOVER)

A Hunters Wanderings in Africa: Being A Narrative of Nine Years Spent Amongst the Game of the Far Interior of South Africa

Frederick Courteney Selous, ( 1851 1917) was a British explorer, officer, professional hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in Southeast Africa. His real-life adventures inspired Sir Henry Rider Haggard to create the fictional character Allan Quatermain. Selous was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and Frederick Russell Burnham. He was pre-eminent within a group of big game hunters that included Abel Chapman and Arthur Henry Neumann. He was the older brother of the ornithologist and writer Edmund Selous.