Tragic Safari

Author - Albert Mahuzier
Publisher - Elek Books; 1956, London
A very good hardcover book in a fair dustjacket.
Dustjacket is neatly overlaid with a clear adhesive laminate, is clipped and has patches of paperloss to the head of the spine and along the top front edge.
Owner's name and stamp to the front end-paper.
Map illustrated endpapers.
144 pages with 16 pages of b&w illustrations.
Albert Mahuzier develops a system for taking colour photographs at night, and travels to French West Africa to put it into practice. Mahuzier's experience in Africa was markedly different from that in his garden at home, as the title suggests.
Chapters include All but a jeep; The flowers of Oubangui; The rains overtake us; Banquet across the Aouk; Buffalo, lions and native beer; The lion kills; On elephant trails; Gazimunju's hunt; Eleventh-hour panther.