author
Chr. (Christoph) Schulz
An early 20th-century adventurer wrote from firsthand experience, turning animal-collecting expeditions in East Africa into a vivid memoir of travel, danger, and colonial-era big-game capture. His best-known book offers a direct, often dramatic look at a world far removed from modern wildlife writing.
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Auf Großtierfang für Hagenbeck : Selbsterlebtes aus afrikanischer Wildnis
by Chr. (Christoph) Schulz
About the author
Little is firmly documented online about Chr. (Christoph) Schulz beyond his surviving work, but he is credited as the author of Auf Großtierfang für Hagenbeck: Selbsterlebtes aus afrikanischer Wildnis, first published in the early 1920s. The book presents itself as an autobiographical account of his years working for Carl Hagenbeck's animal-trading enterprise in East Africa.
In that memoir, Schulz describes the capture and transport of wild animals for Hagenbeck, drawing on his own experiences in what was then German East Africa. Contemporary front matter in the digitized edition describes him as someone who spent many years working successfully for the Hagenbeck firm in West Africa and later East Africa, giving the book the feel of a personal field record as well as an adventure narrative.
Today, Schulz is remembered mainly through this book, which survives as a historical curiosity and a document of its time. For modern listeners, his writing offers both excitement and a revealing glimpse into the attitudes, travel conditions, and wildlife trade of the colonial period.