Jungle Man: The Autobiography of Major P.J. Pretorius

by Pretorius, P. J.

• ISBN13: 9781570901171
• ISBN10: 1570901171
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

Pretorius began his career as an ivory hunter -- back in the 1890s when one could make a living at it, and almost two decades before the profession of "white hunter" was created. This book, first published in 1948, tells the story of this famed African adventurer in his own words.

Responsible for finding and sinking the German warship Konigsberg during World War I, when Pretorius helped the South African government clear a huge number of rogue elephants in the Addo district, he cleaned them out so efficiently that it was decided to create a reserve and let the remainder live out their lives there; today that reserve is the Addo Elephant Park.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 5
Original Foreword	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
Lifting Horizons	p. 13
Frontiers of the Unknown	p. 27
Savage Zambesia	p. 37
War in the Bassouri Country: A Memorable Lion Hunt	p. 47
Trade, Assegais, and Hunts	p. 57
Lost Men of the Lost Lands	p. 67
Death in the Jungle	p. 77
Tsetse Flies, Ants--and Elephants	p. 91
Among the Pygmies: A Fight in the Bush	p. 103
The Prussian Heel	p. 113
Jungle Ways of Man and Beast	p. 123
Thirst	p. 131
The Way of a Hun	p. 141
Man-made Jungle	p. 153
Chief Scout to Smuts	p. 165
Rogue Elephants of the Addo Bush	p. 185
"Dumbos"	p. 195
Tragedy in the Bush	p. 203
Tempting Death--For the Films	p. 211
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