BIG GAME AND BIG LIFE

J. MOREWOOD DOWSETT

LONDON: JOHN BALE SONS & DANIELSSON, LTD.
[1925]

Travel and adventure in New Zealand, North America, and Africa. With much on elephants.

Dowsett hunted in various parts of the world during his lifetime. The second half of this volume deals with his hunts in British East Africa. He systematically describes a variety of plains game, dealing more extensively with hunting buffalo near Mt. Elgon and with chapters on elephant, rhinoceros, lion and leopard. The author survived being pinned by an enraged elephant. (Czech, Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books.)

CONTENTS.

PART I.
By sailing ship to New Zealand and early days in the Colony. Colonial horses. Sheep stealing. Wild boars. Katipo spiders. The basking shark. Cannibalism. The old convict ship. Bush fires. Solatium tuberosum
A horse of character. Earthquakes. A boating party. At the ford. A remarkable escape from shipwreck. The first "cracksman" in New Zealand. A long swim
Bon voyage. Photography—extraordinary. An eccentric individual. A gold rush. A flooded ford
A wrong scent. Murder will out. Division of large estates. A murdering bird. Sharks
Canada. Big game hunting. Lost in the Wilds. In camp. Profit on skins. Bear. Bison. Prairie fires. Frost bite. Ice going out of river. Autocars in the snow. A blizzard. A fine team of horses. The overturned sleigh. Train wrecks
Albania—a little-known country
Iceland
History of Iceland

PART II.
The timber wolf. Coyote. Mountain lion. Lynx. Skunk. Moose
The Caribou. Big-horn Rocky Mountain sheep. Elk. Grizzly bear
The Musk ox. Rocky Mountain goat. Rocky Mountain sheep. Wolverine. Fox. Marten. Wild cat. Raccoon. Mink. Beaver. Musk beaver. Property purchases in Canada. An American deal
Africa—big-game hunting. The jigger. Ostrich
The African (or Cape) buffalo
The Crocodile
Brindled gnu or Blue Wildebeest. Eland. Hartebeest. Lichtenstein's Hartebeest. Eoan. Sable. Situtunga. Waterbuck. Pookoo. Puff-adder
The Hippopotamus
The Lion
The African Leopard
The Rhinoceros
The Ancestry of Elephants. Moeritherium. Palseomastodon. Tetrabelodon. Elephas
The Development of the Elephant. Teeth. Trunk. The Chatham elephant—the largest elephant yet found in the world. The elephant of to-day
The African and Asiatic elephant. The Addo herd. The habits of elephants. Age. Weight. Gestation. Pood, Native traps. Fight for supremacy of herd. Rogues. Tracking
Where to shoot an elephant. Charging elephants. Cow and calves. Depredations of elephants. The cunning and viciousness of elephants. Courting. Feigning death. Elephants' methods of killing a hunter. The fauna of Africa
The Conservation of wild life

24 x 16 cm. 8vo. xii + 242 pp. Frontis + 65 plates + 4 pages of Press reviews.

Good condition. Binding in poor condition, with some loss to the backstrip and bottom edge of the front board. Some light foxing, mainly to the preliminary pages and page edges but otherwise clean and tidy, binding firm.