Africa’s Legendary Professional Hunters volume 1 (Signed by Coenraad Vermaak)

*Africa’s Legendary Professional Hunters volume 1 (Signed by one of the subjects – Coenraad Vermaak) by Brooke Chilvers Lubin is a significant contribution to modern African hunting literature, first published in 1999 by African Hunting Gazette. This substantial volume presents in-depth biographical profiles of some of the continent’s most respected professional hunters, documenting their careers, philosophies, and experiences across decades of safari tradition. Lubin, an accomplished outdoor journalist, approached her subjects with meticulous research and direct interviews, producing a work that balances historical documentation with personal narrative .

Volume 1 focuses on the men who shaped late-20th-century safari operations in southern Africa, detailing their guiding methods, conservation perspectives, and close encounters with dangerous game. The book is richly illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs, adding visual dimension to accounts of buffalo charges, elephant hunts, and life in remote bush camps. Among the featured professionals is Coenraad Vermaak, a highly regarded South African professional hunter whose signature in this copy adds notable provenance and collector appeal .

As the inaugural volume in what became a respected series, Africa’s Legendary Professional Hunters volume 1 is widely collected by safari historians, big-game hunting enthusiasts, and students of African conservation history. The 1999 first edition from African Hunting Gazette represents a period when professional hunting was increasingly documented within a framework of wildlife management and regulated conservation. A signed copy elevates the book from reference work to collectible artifact, directly linking it to one of its distinguished subjects. For collectors of African sporting literature and Rhodesian/South African bush memoirs, Legendary Professional Hunters remains a cornerstone publication from the modern safari era.

Condition: Near Fine – Light wear to corners and edges of spine. Signature in black ink on end paper.