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Everett, Frederick
Heat, Thirst & Ivory. (Signed and numbered first edition. 310/1000 copies)
Elephant and Other Hunting Adventures in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Angola
Published: Safari Press Inc, Longbeach, California, 2002
Original salmon red boards with black outline wide side view head of elephant head to upper board. Black lettering to front and spine. Fred Everett was born and grew up in the northern territories of what was then known as the Bechuanaland Protectorate, a place renowned even today for its game. His backyard was the Chobe and the Okavango Swamps, where Everett was free to roam and where he learned to hunt with an old 7 x 57 mm Mauser. As Everett says, "So I began my career as a hunter in November 1932. Unable to adjust to the world among my own people or even a life at home, I shed the trappings of civilization like a python sloughing its skin. I moved into the bush among the animals that accepted me in my role of predator. Elephants were the only lucrative animals to hunt. As I would be poaching, I would have to be selective and take on the largest ivory, for I could not afford to draw attention to my activities by leaving too many carcasses strewn around." Frederick William Everett is known as one of the last great professional ivory hunters still alive today. In fact, Peter Capstick once said of Fred Everett. " He is truly one of the last grand characters of the African Bush." Not many people can be a ringing endorsement like that! During his long hunting career, he hunted in Bechuanaland, Southern Rhodesia and the Wankie Game Reserve, Mozambique, and the Sudan, shooting scores of elephants. An unusual life and a great story. Foreword by Brian Marsh, and artwork by J.Enrique Lacuesa Bone. This is volume thirty-eight in Safari Press's Classics in African Hunting Series. 285pp. Signed and numbered limited edition. 310/1000 copies. With slipcase. ISBN 1571571361 Fine. Binding Condition: Fine Overall Condition: Fine Size: 28.5 x 22 cm in slipcase