Baron Bror Fredrik von Blixen-Finecke was a Swedish nobleman, writer, and African professional hunter and guide on big-game hunts. He was married to Karen Blixen from 1914 to 1925.
Blixen (left) with Edward, Prince of Wales and Denys Finch Hatton (right), 1928.
Blixen's coat of arms
Big-game hunting is the hunting of large game animals for trophies, taxidermy, meat, and commercially valuable animal by-products. The term is often associated with the hunting of Africa's "Big Five" games, and Indian rhinoceros and Bengal tigers on the Indian subcontinent.
The Duke of Algeciras with a trophy African leopard, one of the 'Big Five', Southern Rhodesia, 1926
Elephant hunting by the Dahomey Amazons depicted in Le Tour du Monde in 1863
Native Americans hunting bison, from an 1855 illustration
400 pound tiger taken by Reverend H. R. Caldwell using a Savage Model 99 chambered for .22 Savage Hi-Power