Sport In Abyssinia or The Mareb And Tackazzee
Author:
MAYO The Earl of
Year:
1876
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
John Murray
Summary:
x- 252 pages, 32 pages of adverts, frontis illustration + four plates, publishers' maroon cloth with gilt Abyssinian device to the upper and rear cover ,Mudies Select Library yellow label to top edge of the front cover. A very good clean copy the cloth clean with no splits or chips. Mayo's party hunted lion, elephant, gazelle etc. and records his travel and observation from his daily journal. As with many sportsmen in the tropics Mayo fell ill to fever and dysentery but managed to recover having taken three doses of opium. Czech 188
Ref:
24139
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