Book Description

Excerpt from The Game Animals of Africa Hitherto those interested in the sporting animals of Africa, if they wished to gain information upon particular species, have been compelled to search through many volumes before they could attain their object. This book is intended to obviate, as far as possible, that defect. Within the following pages will be found details, many of them entirely new, concerning all the more important of the game mammals occurring throughout the length and breadth of Africa. It is not claimed for this work that it is complete and final. Africa is not yet fully explored, and although during the last half-century that great continent has yielded up innumerable secrets of zoology, the discoveries of recent years suggest that forms of animal life, at present unknown to science, may still be awaiting the naturalist and the hunter in the remoter and still unknown regions of the interior. It may, however, be claimed that, concerning known species, as much information as it is possible to comprise within the limits of one stout volume is to be found within the following pages. This information has been conveyed in a reasonably popular form, and the non-scientific reader should have little difficulty in laying his finger quickly upon the facts of which he may be in search. It should add to the interest of readers to know that the great bulk of the book has been contributed by well-known African sportsmen, who have had intimate personal experience of the animals of which they treat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.