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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, frontis plus 38 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.

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