Maneaters and Marauders is the culmination of all the dangerous big-game Taylor met during his 35 years as an ivory hunter. During that time, while living in Nyasaland and Mozambique, Taylor was called upon many times with a SOS from the natives to dispatch a man-eating cat or a rogue pachyderm. In one instance Taylor dispatched, in the time span of a few weeks, a pride of 11 lions that had terrorized an entire district. In addition there are the bad-actor buffalo and elephants that raided native crops or trampled a hapless individual.