{"product_id":"2940014192996","title":"Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa","description":"Some of the best story-telling of any big-game hunter!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An Account of Three Years' Ivory-Hunting Under Mount Kenia and Among the Ndorobo Savages of the Lorogi Mountains, Including a Trip to the North End of Lake Rudolph\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Quality Digital Text\u003cbr\u003e- Linked Table of Contents\u003cbr\u003e- More than 60 photos and illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the book:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I stood to face her, and threw up my rifle to fire at her head as she came on, at a quick run, without raising her trunk or uttering a sound, realising in a moment that this was the only thing to do, so short was the distance separating us. The click of the striker was the only result of pulling the trigger. No cartridge had entered the barrel on my working the bolt after the last shot, though the empty case had flown out! In this desperate situation I saw at once that my case was well-nigh hopeless. The enraged elephant was by this time within a few strides of me; the narrow path was walled in on each side with thick scrub. To turn and run down the path in an instinctive effort to escape was all I could do, the elephant overhauling me at every step. As I ran those few yards I made one spasmodic attempt to work the mechanism of the treacherous magazine, and, pointing the muzzle behind me without looking round, tried it again; but it was no go. She was now all but upon me. Dropping the gun, I sprang out of the path to the right and threw myself down among some brushwood in the vain hope that she might pass on. But she was too close; and, turning with me like a terrier after a rabbit, she was on the top of me as soon as I was down. In falling I had turned over on to my back, and lay with my feet towards the path, face upwards, my head being propped up by brushwood. Kneeling over me (but fortunately not touching me with her legs, which must, I suppose, have been on each side of mine), she made three distinct lunges at me, sending her left tusk through the biceps of my right arm and stabbing me between the right ribs, at the same time pounding my chest with her head (or rather, I suppose, the thick part of her trunk between the tusks) and crushing in my ribs on the same side. At the first butt some part of her head came in contact with my face, barking my nose and taking patches of skin off other spots, and I thought my head would be crushed, but it slipped back and was not touched again. I was wondering at the time how she would kill me; for of course I never thought anything but that the end of my hunting was come at last...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I - FIRST EXPEDITION FROM MOMBASA\u003cbr\u003eHunting weapons\u003cbr\u003eAcross Mackenzie River\u003cbr\u003eRhinoceros — death-charge\u003cbr\u003eWaller's Gazelle\u003cbr\u003eGiraffe\u003cbr\u003eStalking oryx\u003cbr\u003eVultures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II - ON THE JAMRENI RANGE\u003cbr\u003eNatives' mode of killing elephants\u003cbr\u003eSight bushbuck\u003cbr\u003eEncounter with elephants\u003cbr\u003eImpala\u003cbr\u003eHolding a \"shauri\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Blood-brotherhood\"\u003cbr\u003eTracking elephants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III - CAMPING AT MOUNT KENIA\u003cbr\u003eAdvantage of head shot\u003cbr\u003eEleven elephants killed\u003cbr\u003eThe Kenia jungle\u003cbr\u003eGwaso Nyiro River\u003cbr\u003eEncounter with lions — Rhinos\u003cbr\u003eHostile natives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV - THE NDOROBO COUNTRY\u003cbr\u003eCamp at El Bogoi\u003cbr\u003eLimestone springs\u003cbr\u003eElands\u003cbr\u003eZebra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V - NDOROBO ELEPHANT-HUNTING\u003cbr\u003eNdorobo weapons\u003cbr\u003eTracking elephants\u003cbr\u003eA fall-trap\u003cbr\u003eAn infuriated bull\u003cbr\u003eIncredulous guides\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI - RETURN TO MOMBASA\u003cbr\u003eRoi rhébok\u003cbr\u003eA tribe on the war-path\u003cbr\u003eEarthquake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII - SECOND EXPEDITION\u003cbr\u003eSamburu\u003cbr\u003eFlocks of guinea-fowl\u003cbr\u003eImpassable river\u003cbr\u003eConstruct a canoe\u003cbr\u003eLorogi Mountains\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII - EXCURSIONS FROM EL BOGOI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiraffe\u003cbr\u003eLost in the bush\u003cbr\u003eCamp by the Seya River\u003cbr\u003eFive elephants\u003cbr\u003eUp the Barasaloi River\u003cbr\u003eAn exciting hunt\u003cbr\u003eA narrow escape\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories of adventure continue in the following chapters:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIX - EXCURSIONS FROM EL BOGOI (cont)\u003cbr\u003eX - EXCURSIONS FROM EL BOGOI (cont)\u003cbr\u003eXI - FROM EL BOGOI TO LAKE RUDOLPH\u003cbr\u003eXII - LAKE RUDOLPH\u003cbr\u003eXIII - A SOJOURN AT RESHIAT AND KÉRÉ\u003cbr\u003eXIV - RETURN TO LAKE RUDOLPH\u003cbr\u003eXV - RETURN TO LAKE RUDOLPH (cont)\u003cbr\u003eXVI - EN ROUTE FOR EL BOGOI\u003cbr\u003eXVII - CAMPING AT EL BOGOI\u003cbr\u003eXVIII - EL BOGOI TO MOMBASA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote: The Appendix on butterflies has been removed","brand":"Heart and Mind Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080008450288,"sku":"2940014192996","price":8.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014192996_p0.jpg?v=1763602628","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014192996","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}