| The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures (Dodo Press) Contributor(s): Patterson, J. H. (Author), Selous, Frederick Courteney (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1409968332 ISBN-13: 9781409968337 Publisher: Dodo Press OUR PRICE: $14.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Sports & Recreation |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 6" W x 9" (0.61 lbs) 184 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson, DSO (1867-1947), known as J. H. Patterson, was an Anglo-Irish soldier, hunter, author and Zionist, best known for his book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures (1907), which details his experiences while building a railway in Kenya. Patterson was born in Forgney, Ballymahon, County Westmeath (now Longford), Ireland, in 1867. His father was Protestant and his mother was Roman Catholic. He joined the British Army at age seventeen, rose quickly through the ranks and eventually attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Essex Yeomanry (he resigned his commission in 1911). In 1898, he was commissioned by the British East Africa Company to oversee the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo river in present-day Kenya and arrived at the site in March of that year. From 1907 until 1909, Patterson was Chief Game Warden in the East Africa Protectorate, an experience he recounts in his second book, In the Grip of Nyika (1909). |