Globe Pequot / Safari Press
Pages: 298
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-57157-498-5 • Hardback • December 2016 • $39.95 • (£30.00)
978-1-4930-7912-4 • eBook • December 2016 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell was born in Scotland in 1880. He left school at the age of twelve to work on a boat that sailed to Tasmania. At sixteen, he sailed for Mombasa, East Africa. There, he found a job as a meat hunter, using a .303 single-shot Fraser rifle. From there he found similar work in the Yukon, before enlisting to fight in the Boer War in South Africa for the Canadian Mounted Rifles. He used his demobilization pay to finance the first of his proper elephant hunting expeditions in East Africa in 1902. In the 1920s, after years of legendary hunts (and a stint flying for the Royal Flying Corps in World War I) Bell retired in the 1920s. Walter Bell died in June 1954 in Scotland, having lived an exciting and adventurous life.