THE HUNTER IS DEATH

488pp., map, illus., paperback, Reprint, Protea Boekhuis, Pretoria (1987) 2014

ISBN: 9781485300236

A biography of British ivory hunter George Rushby (1900-1969), who mostly worked in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) from the early 1920s until the late 1950s. In 1946 he was responsible for hunting down the pride of lions that had killed and eaten hundreds of people in the Njombe region. As Deputy Game Warden of Tanganyika, he first proposed the Ruaha National Park in 1949 and helped ensure the park was gazetted in 1951.

T.V. Bulpin (1918-1999) is the author of The Ivory Trail, Lost Trails of the Lowveld and Natal and the Zulu Country.