The series includes a 124-page handwritten journal, 1937-1938, recording a trip W.J. Oliver made to French Indo-China (Vietnam) and Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique) with the American big game hunter Michael Lerner and his wife. The journal covers the Atlantic crossing on the S.S. Normandie in December 1937 and provides graphic descriptions of the flights from Amsterdam to the Middle East to India, en route to French Indo-China. Oliver describes his experiences as a tourist in northern India and records his taking motion pictures throughout. Much of the journal relates to his experiences filming wild animals in French Indo-China. He camped with Michael Lerner in the jungle some distance from Saigon during a period of almost two months, and describes the camp, the surrounding landscape, the local people and their customs, Lerner's attempts to kill a trophy tiger, and his own efforts to capture tigers and other animals on film. The journal continues in East Africa, where Oliver spent part of May and June 1938 waiting for Lerner to recover from fever in Cairo, and filmed big game near the Zambezi River in what is now Mozambique. The series also includes a notebook kept by W.J. Oliver during his 1937-1938 trip with the Lerners, containing a shooting log of the films he took, an account of petty expenses, and a record of films he took on his return to Alberta through the Rockies.
The series includes Oliver's travel commentaries on his trips used for public lectures. There is an 11-page typed copy of The Hunt at Ban-Me-Thuot 1938. Other talks include a 13-page typed account of hunting big game with a camera and a 12-page manuscript account of a trip to East Africa with Michael Lerner, who according to the account, was seeking trophies for the Nova Scotia Museum while Oliver was seeking to make a colour film of the big game and the "fast disappearing native folklore".