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"A real story of adventure in unknown lands....concerned principally with elephant and other hunting--sometimes with the author himself as quarry....fortunately he escaped at the worst with an arrow wound." - The Academy, June 13, 1914. "Cooper...tells us the story of his adventures among the cannibals and big game of East and Central Africa, North Eastern Congo...hairbreadth escape from cannibals on the banks of the Insa reads like a chapter from Rider Haggard." - Manchester Courier, April 24, 1914. In 1914, Reginald Davey Cooper wrote of his narrow escape with his life from angry elephants and hostile tribes inhabiting the Congo. In introducing his book, Cooper writes, "I have been charged by elephants and wounded by cannibals in ambush....The life of a rolling stone, as I have known it, is always a glorious uncertainty, up one day and down the next; but I do not advise any one to try it, for in the long run the game is unprofitable financially, and you must be extremely versatile, able to adapt yourself to all grades of society, and willing to accept cheerfully whatever may come your way...Cannibals and so forth, they have all come true at last, lions, snakes, leopards, eleph

Who reads Hunting and Hunted in the Belgian Congo?

Author

Reginald Davey Cooper

Publisher

Smith, Elder & Co.

Published

1914

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction