Lords of the Veldt & Vlei Deluxe Edition

Leather-bound, 271 pages1,000 Limited Edition copiesTrade Edition has sold out, order your copy while supplies last!Signed & Numbered by Jim Casada This top-selling 272-page book details 17 early African hunters, chronicling their careers while highlighting their hunts, delving into the factors that drove them, and sharing their achievements. Each profile is accompanied by a selection from published accounts by these pioneers of African sport with dozens of vintage photographs. They take you vicariously along on their hunts, whether on the game-rich plains of the southern Africa interior, the dense swamps of the Okavango River or the high veldt or the Lado Enclave with its mighty tuskers.This volume carries the reader through a representative collection of those who pioneered and popularized sport in Africa from 1837-1910. Chronologically, they include: William Cornwallis Harris, William Cotton Oswell, Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming, Sir Samuel White Baker, William Charles Baldwin, Charle