MAN AND BEAST IN AFRICA by Somer, Francois (foreword by Ernest Hemingway) (translated from the French by Edward Fitzgerald) - 1954

New York: Citadel Press, 1954. 206 pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; blue upper edge. Cover and interior photographs by the author. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks and chips around the edges; price intact; no interior markings. Sommer began as a hunter with guns and finished as a photographer. Ernest Hemingway was in two plane crashes in Africa the same year as this was published. The Contents are: Foreword by Ernest Hemingway; The Story of the South; What Happened in the North; Central Africa; The Professional Big-Game Hunters; A Few Personalities; The Distribution of Africa's Fauna; The Elephant; The Lion; The Rhinoceros; The Buffalo; The Derby Eland; The Dangers of Big-Game Hunting; Big-Game Rifles and Ammunition; Big-Game Hunting Today; and Big-Game Hunting of Tomorrow; followed by an index. The Francois Sommer Foundation - created by Francois Sommer and his wife Jacqueline, the foundation is recognized by a public decree of 30 November, 1966. It works to build a peaceful dialogue between all users of nature, hunters and non-hunters. It wishes to spread the values of a humanist ecology in society and to act with sincerity - with respect for the dignity of man - for the sustainable use of natural resources.. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Illus. by Francois Sommer;. 8vo. Book.