There's never been anyone quite like John Boyes, the most notorious of East Africa's pioneers. This is his true story, his firsthand accounts of exploits on the Dark Continent during the days of the most daring adventurers. There are lots of things you can say about John Boyes: he was a troublemaker. He was an ivory poacher. He was a hunter. He was a soldier. He was a scalawag. He was a king. He was a criminal. And, above all, he was an adventurer. If there was a fight, John Boyes was there, fists flying. If there was money ...
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There's never been anyone quite like John Boyes, the most notorious of East Africa's pioneers. This is his true story, his firsthand accounts of exploits on the Dark Continent during the days of the most daring adventurers. There are lots of things you can say about John Boyes: he was a troublemaker. He was an ivory poacher. He was a hunter. He was a soldier. He was a scalawag. He was a king. He was a criminal. And, above all, he was an adventurer. If there was a fight, John Boyes was there, fists flying. If there was money to be made, legally or illegally, Boyes was always first in line. If there was a desert to be crossed, a jungle to be tamed, a government to be swindled, a local tribe to be befriended or exploited, you could count on John Boyes.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. No Jacket. 318pp, map, 36 photo illustrations. Original brown cloth boards protected with loose plastic film, unobtrusive remains of old stain approx. 5cm x 6cm to top right-hand corner of front board, with some puckering of cloth, which is now firm and tight. Previous owner's signature to front free end-paper, internal hinges perfect, tight and unmarked. Sub-title page slightly darkened, very few tiny and unobtrusive foxing spots to end-papers, else VG+. John Boyes, the self-styled 'King of the Wa-Kikuyu', narrates his early life as an adventurer, frontiersman and jack-of-all-trades in early colonial Africa. SR2.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Frontis (map), photos, xvi. 318p. Original cloth. dj. 22cm. Jacket has moderate chipping at ends of backstrip and modest chips at ends of folds. Former owner's name on endpaper. Travel and adventure, including elephant shooting in what was then called the Lado Enclave.
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VG to vg+ 318 pp, ill. With a foreword by Lord Cranworth. One of the African pioneer adventurers who was most admired by Theodore Roosevelt. (Boyes was also King of the WaKikuyu tribe. ) Boyes had more thrilling adventures in real life than most men have in fiction. Tremendous accounts of big game hunting, especially elephant hunting by a man who should know. A super reading book. Nice vg (spine lettering readable but little dull) to vg+ copy.