Incidents from an Elephant Hunter's Diary

by W. D.M. Bell

Overview

Once again the legendary Karamojo Bell marches through the wilds of Africa-traversing a land virtually untouched by modern civilization in search of adventure and ivory. The Africa Bell knew is now long gone and seemingly very far away, but, in reality, his travels took place only about a century ago. Join us as Bell takes us to a land with vast herds of wildlife living in rough equilibrium with the native human populations. Through his earlier books Bell gained the reputation for being an excellent marksman who shot small-caliber guns at giant elephants with deadly precision. Bell was best known for his exploits in Karamoja, in what is now largely Uganda, and in these newly unearthed short stories, we again find him in familiar terrain and with his faithful retinue of trackers and camp followers. We also find Bell in unfamiliar terrain. Travel with Bell to the French Congo where he encounters a man-eating leopard, and go along with him to West Africa when he ventures into the rain forest with the Pygmies to test his luck against elephants in dense vegetation. Then there are some wonderfully descriptive stories of an elephant camp and its social life, crocodiles that menace a village, several hunts for elephants on islands in the Ubangi River (not for the faint of heart!), and a trip from Kano to Khartoum via motor car.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493079124
Publisher:	Safari Press, Inc.
Publication date:	12/01/2016
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	298
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell was born in Scotland in 1880. He left school at the age of twelve to work on a boat that sailed to Tasmania. At sixteen, he sailed for Mombasa, East Africa. There, he found a job as a meat hunter, using a .303 single-shot Fraser rifle. From there he found similar work in the Yukon, before enlisting to fight in the Boer War in South Africa for the Canadian Mounted Rifles. He used his demobilization pay to finance the first of his proper elephant hunting expeditions in East Africa in 1902. In the 1920s, after years of legendary hunts (and a stint flying for the Royal Flying Corps in World War I) Bell retired in the 1920s. Walter Bell died in June 1954 in Scotland, having lived an exciting and adventurous life.