HUNTING TRIPS IN NORTHERN RHODESIA; With accounts of sport and travel in Nyasaland and Portuguese East Africa, and also notes on the game animals and their distribution
Author:
LYELL D.D.
Year:
1910
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
Horace Cox
Summary:
xii ? 118, 2pp of adverts small 4to, full page and text illustrations from photographs, and drawings The text and illustrations showing rippling and creasing to most pages, the illustrations and text complete and text and illustrations clear browning to end papers ownership name of Walter P Neilson 1914 to the front-end paper, gutter of rear end paper cracked but a tight copy. Bound in the original green simulated snakeskin cloth, with gilt title to the upper cover with a pictorial onlay showing a camp scene. The binding and gilt clean and bright with no defects. Although the contents have problems there is no sign of damp or water damage. "Lyell recounts his experiences in the big game lands of Rhodesia with exciting details. All manner of game was collected, including elephant near Lake Chiuta, hippopotamus on the Shire River, rhinoceros on the Luangwa River, and lion. In addition, sable impala, kudu, eland, lechwe, waterbuck and other antelopes were also taken."
Ref:
24245
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