An interesting work providing brief biographies with considerable mention of the sportsmen of the region, including Oswell, Baldwin, Selous and Cumming. Even more helpful are the biographies of Boer hunters such as Petrus Jacobs, the famous elephant hunter. (An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785 to 1950   - Czech)

List of pioneers / sportsmen: Jacobus Coetsee, Hendrik Hop, Willem van Reenen, Pieter Brand, Jacob Gordon, Pieter Jan Truter, Rev. Anderson, Burchell, Captain Cutfield, Coenraad du Buys, A.G. Bain, Kruger family, David Hume, R Schoon, Gert Maritz, Cornwallis-Harris, Louis & Karel Trichardt, Andries Hendrik Potgieter, Gordon-Cumming, William Robinson, H Reader, William Wood, Baldwin, Jan Viljoen, Petrus Jacobs, Henry Hartley, Joseph McCabe, Wilson, Samuel Edwards, John Dunn, Frederick Green, Oswell, Major Frank Vardon, Murray of Lintrose, Martinus Swartz, Paul Zietsman, Chapman, Andersson, Willem Prinsloo, Adam Render, Thomas Leask, George Westbeech, George Wood, Vincent Erskine, Wahlberg, Carl Mauch, Thomas Baines, Beningfield.

Red cloth boards, gilt lettered to the upper panel and spine, plain endpapers, [x] pp of prelims + portrait of the author as frontispiece + 128 pages of text and appendix + 12 inserted halftone portraits and scenes.

CONDITION:  Lightly foxed on a few pages. Some rubbing and marks on red cloth cover. Inscription in ink in front by pioneer Jack Carruthers, who in 1891 incorporated the area around the Zimbabwe Ruins, forming the farm "Oatlands". He pegged many minin claims.