Jungle Man: The Autobiography of Major P. J. Pertorious by P. J. Pretorious. (Elephant hunter)

Jungle Man: The Autobiography of Major P. J. Pertorious by P. J. Pretorious.

Publisher: The Australasian Publishing Co & George G Harrap and Company Ltd, 1948, First Edition, 2nd impression. SCARCE.

Good hardback in torn jacket. red cloth boards have a little rubbing and bumping, one corner is quite rubbed. No inscriptions, binding firm. Pages are tanned and foxed. Jacket is tatty, torn, rubbed and marked with repaired tears and some loss to edges. 232 pages with photos.

The true story of Major Jan Pretorius, a South African elephant hunter and adventurer, this is a true tale of continuous adventure for a lifetime and considered one of the most extraordinary ever written. Pretorius also gives the first full account of the search for the German cruiser Königsberg which had sunk the Pegasus at Zanzibar and then gone into hiding in the Rufiji delta. I have never seen a more thrilling story of a hunter s life. It is full of almost unbelievable incidents, of reckless daring, and of hair-breadth escapes. If one knew the writer the interest increases, for he was a quiet, gentle, unassuming person in appearance. What fire lay hidden under those quiet features and that gentle manner! His very person seemed to be a camouflage. Foreword by J. C. Smuts

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