African Hunting Gazette

Rowland Ward’s Records of Big Game – Thirtieth Edition, Africa

In 1892, James Rowland Ward (1848–1912), a British taxidermist, well-known publisher of natural history books and big-game hunting narratives, and the founder of the firm Rowland Ward Limited of Piccadilly, London, published the first of what has become an eponymous series of books, the Records of Big Game. Now, nearly 130

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