African Adventure by Fredrick B. Patterson (Good Read)

[Traveler1]

All,

I had been seeing some the old safari pictures go across the front page of AH and decided to read African Adventure again. I think this book is under the radar of most hunters and appears to have had a limited printing in 1928. I have had this book close to 30 years and with less than a 100 pages I have read it many times. The author was the son of John H. Patterson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Patterson_(NCR_owner) He hunted with Denys Finch-Hatton and knew the Duke of York. Here are few pages from the book. Sorry for the poor scanning, I did not want to stretch the binding. The author filmed most his safari. I would love to see that motion picture. The author is no Capstick, but I was not expecting that. It reads like a very exciting Hunting Report from 1927.

 

[baxterb]

Yes a very good book for the archive. I have a print of a pic of Patterson’s first lion (not shown in the book), and a scan of the letter finch hatton wrote Kermit Roosevelt asking if he knew anything about Patterson.

 

[Traveler1]

Yes a very good book for the archive. I have a print of a pic of Patterson’s first lion (not shown in the book), and a scan of the letter finch hatton wrote Kermit Roosevelt asking if he knew anything about Patterson.

Had did you come by the picture and letter?

 

[baxterb]

Had did you come by the picture and letter?

I bought the pic from a newspaper archive in India and the letter is from the national archives. I paid for them to scan all of the letters from Denys to Kermit for me.

consider me a finch hatton aficionado.

 

[Traveler1]

Gotcha... I will keep that in mind when I run across any DFH items.