The Hunter is Death by Bulpin, T. V

(Johannesburg: Thomas Nelson, 1962). Illustrated by C. T. Astley Maberly. First edition. 8vo; original grey boards; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. viii + 348; line drawings in text. Dustwrapper rather edgeworn, and foxed to reverse side; some fox spots to edges and occasionally elsewhere. Good to very good condition. (Czech, p. 44) "This is the biography of George Rushby, noted big game hunter and poacher operating in Tanzania and other locales. There is considerable detail on elephant hunting, as well as hunting with James Sutherland." - Kenneth Czech: An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1999. "This book is without doubt the most remarkable true account ever written of adventure in Africa. From its start in 1921 in a Salvation Army soup kitchen in Durban until its climax in Tanganyika in 1946, the reader is transported into a world of tumultuous and bizarre events. Here, for the first time, are the authentic details of an animalism, a lycanthropy and black magic almost beyond belief - the hyena cult of the Mbugwe people, the fearsome lion-men of the Singida district, and the twenty-two man-eaters of the Njombe district who killed and ate well over one thousand known human beings before nemesis brought them one by one to their deaths in the solitude of the bush. Here also are the great characters of the twilight of adventure in Africa; Jim Sutherland, prince of elephant hunters; Bill Cumming and his companions of the Lupa Gold Rush; and George Rushby whose story this is, the young man who went to South Africa in search of a new life and all the curious and violent things that befell him until, as a game ranger of Tanganyika, he faced and defeated the dread man-eaters of the Njombe district." .