Download or read book The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter (Classic Reprint) written by Former Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern Literature James Sutherland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter Before proceeding further, and in the light of some of the personal adventures which follow, a very brief sketch of my life abroad may be of some interest to the reader, and lend a certain cohesion to my Stories as far as the question of time is concerned. I left the Old Country for Cape Town, in the early part of 1896, with the object of carving out a career for myself. I had no precise knowledge of what that career was to be, I Simply experienced an urgent desire to wander - a desire probably inherited from my father, who spent his early manhood gold digging in New Zealand and Australia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.