African Zoo Man

by John Pollard

Pollard's biography of his remarkable friend Raymond Hook. Recounting Hook's search for the Spotted Lion, running an African zoo, milking deadly puff adders, surviving two World Wars, and racing cheetahs against Greyhounds. 1963 edition published by Robert Hale contains 16 chapters, 17 photographs.

176 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1963

About the author

John Pollard was born in Exeter and educated in Herefordshire, Devon and at Exeter College, Oxford, and is a classical don by profession.

During the Second World War he served with the King's African Rifles and was thus able to indulge a boyhood passion for birds and animals on a scale that only Africa can provide.