SZÉCHENYI, Zsigmond.

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Land of Elephants. Big-Game Hunting in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda. First edition in English, first impression, inscribed from one big-game hunter to another on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs H. Lerner, the slayer of Lions, from a Boer - Wm P. Steenkamp Jr. Capetown 14/4/37". A South African MP from 1929, Steenkamp was known as the "Lion of the North-West" for his fiery oratory.Together with her husband, Michael, Lerner (1902-1979) hunted across the globe in the 1930s and 1940s. Friends of Ernest Hemingway, they shared with him an interest not only in big-game but also fishing, and they founded the International Game Fish Association in 1939. According to the association's website, Helen, "this trailblazing angler and marine scientist, made history as the first woman to reel in a bluefin tuna off the European continent, the inaugural angler to catch nine tuna in a single year, and the pioneer in catching a broadbill in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans". Photographs of their 1936-37 Africa safari, including images of Lerner with her lion trophies, are held by the University of Calgary.By the time he died, Willem Petrus Steenkamp (1879-1956) "had been many things: a spell-binding preacher who was invited no less than 58 times to minister elsewhere - surely still a record - an equally spell-binding political orator; a respected naturalist; a best-selling author; an expert on Arabian horses; twice a political prisoner; a big-game hunter and world traveller; such a foe of N

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