New Guinea Crocodile Poacher by Gunther Bahnemann.
New Guinea Crocodile Poacher by Gunther Bahnemann.
Publisher: Jarrolds Publisher Limited, London, 1964, First Edition. SCARCE.
Hardback with jacket. Blue cloth boards have some marks and fading to edges. Rear edge has a water stain which has caused a blue stain to the inside of the rear board and to the end paper. No inscriptions, pages are tanned with minor marks. Price-clipped jacket is marked, rubbed and chipped with tears and some loss. Spine is dulled down. Light water stain. 192 pages.
Fifty miles upstream from the mouth of the vast Digoel River, which rises in the central range of New Guinea, are the vast reedy swamps which are the breeding grounds of innumerable crocodiles. Gunther Bahnemann, a daring rebel who had one deserted from the Afrika Korps, took a poaching expedition there, running a gauntlet of Dutch gunboats and the even more dangerous hazards of the jungle head hunters whose domain he invaded. In this unique adventure, the one-time Wehrmacht dispatch rider, now an Australian, describes how he and the men with him risked their lives to make quick money. But not easy money
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