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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Big Game Shooting, volume 1 (of 2)
Clive Phillipps-Wolley and Charles Whymper
594 pages~11 hr 50 min read83 chapters$4.99
The great hunts of the world, told by the men who made them. This first volume opens on big game shooting in general and South Africa half a century before, with the life of the famed hunter William Cotton Oswell. Adventure and natural history from the high age of the chase. Ride out after Africa's largest game.
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Inside this book
83 chapters
- 1BIG GAME SHOOTING
- 2DEDICATION TO H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES
- 3PREFACE
- 4CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME
- 5ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE FIRST VOLUME
- 6FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
- 7WOODCUTS IN TEXT
- 8BIG GAME SHOOTING
- 9CHAPTER I ON BIG GAME SHOOTING GENERALLY
- 10Still Hunting
- 11CHAPTER II SOUTH AFRICA FIFTY YEARS AGO
- 12WILLIAM COTTON OSWELL: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
- 13INTRODUCTION
- 14FIRST EXPEDITION TO AFRICA
- 15CHAPTER III SECOND EXPEDITION TO SOUTH AFRICA
- 16CHAPTER IV LATER VISITS TO SOUTH AFRICA
- 17CHAPTER V WITH LIVINGSTONE IN SOUTH AFRICA
- 18CHAPTER VI EAST AFRICA—BATTERY, DRESS, CAMP GEAR AND STORES
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