Pitman, Captain C R S - Late 27th Punjabis Indian Army, Game Warden- Uganda Protectorate: A Game Warden Takes Stock , London: James Nisbet & Co., 1942

Hardback, first edition, good++ condition, no dust-jacket, publisher's original green clothboards with silvergilt blocking to spine, spine faded, boards rubbed at edges, 287 pages including index, some foxing esp. to page edges, sepia photo illustrations, fold-out map at rear, previous owners inscription on ffep dated 1943, ----------------Contents: Foreward by His EXCELLENCY the BELGIAN AMBASSADOR: PREFACE; TAKING STOCK; VANISHING SPECIES : GORILLAS.V ANISHING SPECIES : CHIMPANZEES, WHITE RHINOCEROS VANISHING SPECIES : BLACK RHINOCEROS, GIRAFFE, UGANDA KOB; The FATHER of the BUFFALOES; HIPPOPOTAMUS - GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS HIPPOPOTAMUS = Its FOES and its FOOD; HIPPOPOTAMUS - BIRTH and EARLY YEARS; More about LIONS - MANEATERS; More about LIONS - HUNTING with SPEAR, RIFLE and CAMERA; The MABIRA FOREST - The LARGER INHABITANTS; The MABIRA FOREST - LESSER CREATURES; FLOTSAM and JETSAM - GENERAL; FLOTSAM and JETSAM - MAMMALS; FLOTSAM and JETSAM - BIRDS; FLOTSAM and JETSAM - REPTILES, FISHES, and INSECTS; Index----------------------The author, a respected conservationist in Uganda, has written a book about the status of game in East Africa - from the largest to the least spectacular. Full of personal observations, an absolutely outstanding book by a sportsman-naturalist with a thorough knowledge of the wild animals of Uganda. (Book ref. 2002)  £38.00

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