Frederick Courteney Selous (1851 – 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in Southeast Africa. His real-life adventures inspired Sir H. Rider Haggard to create the fictional Allan Quatermain character. Selous was also a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and Frederick Russell Burnham. He was pre-eminent within a select group of big game hunters that included Abel Chapman and Arthur Henry Neumann.
From the Preface:
"All the best years of my life, from, youth, till middle age, were spent as a hunter of African game. During that time the love of the free wandering life in countries still well stocked with the richest and most varied fauna to be found on the face of the earth, grew with the years, till it seemed to me that I could never be content to live any other life than that of a nomadic hunter.
"It is now a good many years since I ceased to make my living by my rifle, but in view of the length of time… and the eventful character of the life I then led, it is not, perhaps, remarkable that my thoughts still often wander back to a past of stirring and glorious memories. Nor is it surprising that I sometimes grow restless and dissatisfied with life in this highly civilized country, and long with an irresistible longing to taste the joys of a hunter's life once more.
I can only hope that in these transcripts from my diaries, written nightly over the camp fire, when the events described were fresh in my memory, they will find here and there matter of sufficient interest to incline them to extend to me once more the same kindly consideration they have always given me in the past.
"I cherish the hope that this… tale of the latest wanderings of an elder brother of the craft may… act as an incentive to the undertaking of hunting trips to one or other of those vast and still unexplored hunting fields of North-western Canada, which are still almost virgin ground to the British sportsman."
-- F.C. Selous
Contents:
Chapter I. - A Moose Hunt In The Forests Of Central Canada.
Chapter II. - After Woodland Caribou In Newfoundland.
Chapter III. - Beyond St. John's Lake. A Well Stocked Hunting Ground.
Chapter IV. - Hunting On The North Fork Of The MacMillan River, Yukon Territory.
Chapter V. - How We Fared In The Yukon Mountains.
Chapter VI. - The Luck Of A Hunter. A Big Moose.
Chapter VII. - A Journey To King George's Lake, Newfoundland.
Chapter VIII. - Hunting On The South Fork Of The Macmillan River.
Chapter IX. - Sport With Big Game In The Mountains Of The Macmillan.
Chapter X. - Hints On Equipment.
This book published in 1907 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.
From the Preface:
"All the best years of my life, from, youth, till middle age, were spent as a hunter of African game. During that time the love of the free wandering life in countries still well stocked with the richest and most varied fauna to be found on the face of the earth, grew with the years, till it seemed to me that I could never be content to live any other life than that of a nomadic hunter.
"It is now a good many years since I ceased to make my living by my rifle, but in view of the length of time… and the eventful character of the life I then led, it is not, perhaps, remarkable that my thoughts still often wander back to a past of stirring and glorious memories. Nor is it surprising that I sometimes grow restless and dissatisfied with life in this highly civilized country, and long with an irresistible longing to taste the joys of a hunter's life once more.
I can only hope that in these transcripts from my diaries, written nightly over the camp fire, when the events described were fresh in my memory, they will find here and there matter of sufficient interest to incline them to extend to me once more the same kindly consideration they have always given me in the past.
"I cherish the hope that this… tale of the latest wanderings of an elder brother of the craft may… act as an incentive to the undertaking of hunting trips to one or other of those vast and still unexplored hunting fields of North-western Canada, which are still almost virgin ground to the British sportsman."
-- F.C. Selous
Contents:
Chapter I. - A Moose Hunt In The Forests Of Central Canada.
Chapter II. - After Woodland Caribou In Newfoundland.
Chapter III. - Beyond St. John's Lake. A Well Stocked Hunting Ground.
Chapter IV. - Hunting On The North Fork Of The MacMillan River, Yukon Territory.
Chapter V. - How We Fared In The Yukon Mountains.
Chapter VI. - The Luck Of A Hunter. A Big Moose.
Chapter VII. - A Journey To King George's Lake, Newfoundland.
Chapter VIII. - Hunting On The South Fork Of The Macmillan River.
Chapter IX. - Sport With Big Game In The Mountains Of The Macmillan.
Chapter X. - Hints On Equipment.
This book published in 1907 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.
