SNAKE MAN
The Story of C.J.P. Ionides
1st Edition 1960
Author = Alan Wykes.
CONTENTS:
FOREWORD
- Snake Man
- Constantine
- Bobby
- Ironhides
- The Greek
- Iodine
- Snake Man
Appendix I
Rare mammals hunted by Ionides
Appendix II
Rare Reptiles captured by Ionides
Many of the chapters of this absorbing book deal with the hunting, catching and taming of those beautiful but invariable maligned creatures, snakes. The description of the capture, in circumstances of great urgency, of a magnificent Green Mamba in the top-most branches of a hundred-foot mango tree, makes perhaps its most exciting episode; but the reader may be even more thrilled by incidents concerning the poisonous Gaboon Viper, the Spitting Cobra, and the aquatic snakes that are caught by night in the light of pressure lamps.
C.J.P. Ionides, the subject of the biography, is a sixth-generation Briton whose family came from Greece in 1840. His reputation as a naturalist is world-wide. Since 1945 he has specialized in herpetology, but long before that he had achieved immense prestige as a white hunter and a collector of wild animals.
This book will introduce to the general public a man who is, in many ways, truly great.
Biography of C.J.P. Ionides, Tanganyika Game Warden, Poacher, Big Game Hunter and a world renowned Herpetologist who spent a lifetime in the remote Tanganyikan bush collecting TENS OF THOUSANDS OF deadly snakes like Green and Black mambas, Puff Adder, Gaboon Viper, Egyptian Cobra and various Spitting Cobras for various zoos. His fabulous collection of record trophy animals are still displayed at the Nairobi Museum.
Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1960.
Weight: 360 grams.
Size: 203mm x 135mm.
Pages: 225, Black & White pictures.
Book Condition: Hardcover, Dust Jacket torn in a few places, book inside good.
