AFRICAN ADVENTURES

ALEXANDER LAKE

W. H. ALLEN: LONDON
1954

First edition.
Alexander Lake, who at the age of seventeen became apprentice meat-hunter for Nicobar Jones, one of Africa's greatest traders, and whose subsequent experience of hunting in Africa is unsurpassed, defines an adventure as "a happening that involves hazard or danger".

In this successor to his popular big-game classic, Killers in Africa, he recounts many of the most unusual and thrilling adventures of his long career. They make immensely exciting, and at times delightfully humorous, reading.
This book is also notable for some of its unique illustrations, taken mostly by Hollywood's Miki Carter, an intrepid cameraman whose specially constructed 3D camera was the first of its type ever used in Africa.
African Adventures is a book for the expert hunter as well as the general reader. The latter will appreciate the author's delightful style of writing. It is racy and vivid and thus immensely readable. The author suggests some wonderful and practical recipes for wild game dishes—some for the gourmet, others for the ordinary housewife (if she can get hold of a zebra, perhaps, or a snake!). Among his other practical information is advice on where to hunt and how to obtain honest and inexpensive guides.
There is a fascinating chapter on witch doctors, and a unique section dealing exclusively with African insects.

The true delight of Alexander Lake's books is that they are a complete departure from the traditional documentary type of travel and adventure story. Here are true "Jungle Tales," told in the manner of a great hunter reminiscing with his friends around the camp-fire. They have the quality of fiction and withal the ring of authenticity.
There are hours of exciting and and absorbing reading in African Adventures.

Hunting South Africa, Kenya, Rhodesia, Congo

CONTENTS
APES' LOST WEEK-END
A LION FOR MUSSOLINI
THE KING'S EMERALDS
A WITCH-DOCTOR'S MAGIC
A 10,000 DOLLAR BET
KILLING WITHOUT GUNS
HOW TO COOK A CROCODILE (AND OTHER BIG-GAME RECIPES)
THE MAN WHO FEARED SPIDERS
MURDER IN THE CONGO
NIGHTMARES IN THE JUNGLE
WITCH-DOCTOR "MAGIC"
OF BIRDS, MEN AND CATS
THE JUNGLE CAN BE FUN

22 x 14 cm. 272 pp. Illustrated with b/w photo plates.

Good condition. Front free endpaper removed. Light foxing to the page edges but otherwise clean and tidy.