Harry Manners 180 pounder

[bakerb]

So I am reading John Kingsley-Heath’s “Hunting the Dangerous Game of Africa”. In the elephant chapter, he talks about Basil Reel’s pictures of huge elephants. I remember reading somewhere else about Basil Reel and his pictures, maybe in Terry Irwin’s book? Any ways, that lead me to a google search of Basil Reel.

One article that Google led me to was a discussion of where Basil Reel’s 165 pounder ranked in the overall ranking of biggest elephants. That article mentioned that Harry Manner’s 180 pounder was disqualified from Rowland Ward.

So that lead me to a google search for that, as I’d never heard that. I found some 8 or 9 year old article that I think was published in Magnum, that discussed the book Kambaku and Harry Manners. That article claimed that Kambaku was essentially fiction, and that the 180 pounder pictured in that book was actually an elephant killed by Wally Johnson.

I can’t find much more on this. Does anyone know anything about this? Or have links to more articles, etc.?

Thanks!

 

[Lancaster]

It's a great book Kambaku. It would be a shame if it had fictitious elements but, then he wouldn't be alone in that claim amongst African safari authors I guess

 

[Zinz]

What a shame if this was all a ruse...

Ed Z

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

My memory is fuzzy but it seems like something about that has been discussed before on AH. I’ll spend some time searching for it later

 

[bakerb]

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Found the article I read

 

[bakerb]

 

[uplander01]

Great book. I enjoyed reading it, is it all true, who knows, it did seem novel like when I read it? If I had to guess I'd say the guy shot a lot of big elephants. Seems like a lot written about Africa in the 20th century may be a bit farcical and had some base in romanticism.

 

[HankBuck]

Great book. I enjoyed reading it, is it all true, who knows, it did seem novel like when I read it? If I had to guess I'd say the guy shot a lot of big elephants. Seems like a lot written about Africa in the 20th century may be a bit farcical and had some base in romanticism.

@uplander01 - wouldn’t it be nice to live during an “Era” where you had to embellish a 150lb tusk ——into a 180 lb Tusk in order to garner attention? As Today we all DROOL for and 80 lb Tusk !!