Frederick Selous
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Frederick Courteney Selous, DSO was a British explorer, army officer, professional hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in Southeast Africa. His real-life adventures inspired Sir Henry Rider Haggard to create the fictional character Allan Quatermain.
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Selous (front seated) leader of H Troops of Bulawayo Field Force, Matabeleland, 1890s.
Grave of Frederick C. Selous
Grave of Frederick Courtenay Selous, contemporary look
A studio portrait of young Selous with his Boer 4 bore elephant gun and African spear, 1870s.
Theodore Roosevelt and Selous in Africa, ca 1909.
Selous, a gentleman's portrait on African safari, with two shots Kori bustards and his Holland and Woodward patent rifle. The 1890s.
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Frederick Courteney Selous, DSO was a British explorer, army officer, professional hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in Southeast Africa. His real-life adventures inspired Sir Henry Rider Haggard to create the fictional character Allan Quatermain. Selous was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and Frederick Russell Burnham. He was pre-eminent within a group of big game hunters that included Abel Chapman and Arthur Henry Neumann. He was the older brother of the ornithologist and writer Edmund Selous.
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