C. H. (Chauncy Hugh) Stigand

Born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in 1877, C. H. Stigand was a British army officer, explorer, and colonial administrator as well as a prolific writer. He served with the Royal West Kent Regiment and later in British East Africa and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, experiences that became the basis for much of his nonfiction.

Stigand wrote several books on tracking, wildlife, and travel, including Central African Game and Its Spoor, Scouting and Reconnaissance in Savage Countries, The Game of British East Africa, and To Abyssinia Through an Unknown Land. His books are often valued for their firsthand detail about landscapes, animals, and frontier travel, though modern readers may also notice the unmistakable assumptions and language of the colonial era.

He was killed in action in 1919 while serving in Sudan. That short life left behind a body of work that still interests readers of exploration writing, natural history, and the history of East Africa.