1968 hardcover with dust jacket and 348 pages in good secondhand condition. Name in ink in front.

The story of George Rushby whose extraordinary story is set amongst the man-eaters of Njombe in Tanganyika.

From its start in 1921 in a Salvation Army soup kitchen in Durban until its climax in Tanganyika in 1946, the reader is transported into a world of tumultuous and bizarre events. Here is the hyena cult of the Mbugwe paople, the fearsom lion-men of the Singida district, and the twenty-two man-eaters of the Njombe district who kiled and ate well over a thousand known human beings before their deaths, Great characters emerge, great tales told.