Man-eaters of Tsavo and other East African Adventures

£75.00

PATTERSON, J.H SKU: 21282

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1958.

Publisher's burgundy hard cloth with the striking dust-jacket depicting a pair of lions roaring through the jungle landscape. 8vo. pp xv + 350 + [2]. Numerous b/w photographs in the text. Price-clipped jacket slightly chipped at ends of the backstrip and a touch toned. A near fine copy. The "man-eaters" of the title refer to twin lions who for nine months waged a savage though intermittent warfare against the railway and all connected with it as Tsavo in Kenya.