Author:
DRACOPOLI I. N.
Title:
Through Jubaland To The Lorian Swamp
Price:
£75.00
Year:
1914
Edition:
1st Edn
Summary:
318 pages, 18 pages adverts, 31 plates coloured, folding map + text map, foxing to contents, publishers rust coloured cloth, gilt native vignette to upper board, rubbing to edges and dust soiling, pencil ownership of H.C.V.Hunter to front end paper. Hunter first discovered the Hunter's hartebeeste or arrola at the mouth of the Tana River in 1887. Chapter viii is on hartebeeste or arrola, and one Dracopoli's objects was to obtain specimens. Dracopoli hunted oryx, gerenuk, zebra, topi etc, his description of the terrain and climate is especially interesting. Czech 84.
Ref:
20295