Elephant Hunting In East Equatorial Africa, Being An Account Of Three Years' Ivory-Hunting Under Mount Kenia and among The Ndorobo Savages Of The Lorogi Mountains, Including A Trip To The North End Of Lake Rudolph
Author:
NEUMANN Arthur H.
Year:
1898
Edition:
1st Edn
Publisher:
Rowland Ward
Summary:
xix 455 pages, 8pp adverts, numerous full page and text illustrations by J.G. Millais, E Caldwell and G.E. Lodge and a colour plate of butterflies, large coloured folding map in the rear pocket. A vg clean tight copy in the publisher's red cloth, titled in black to upper board and spine very light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine. Ownership BOOKPLATE OF HERBERT WARD & SARITA WARD to the paste down, with Herbert Wards signature and 98 to the half title page. Herbert Ward brother of Rowland Ward, was an accomplished big game hunter, a British sculptor, illustrator, writer, and explorer in Africa. He was a member of Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition and Stanley appointed Ward as a lieutenant. When Ward was in the Congo, cannibalism still widespread in some regions, which he encountered pn many occasions and it is frequently mentioned in his works, including in the title of his first book, Five Years with the Congo Cannibals Neumann hunted throughout British East Africa, hunting rhino and onyx near the Mackenzie River, elephant, impala and rhino near Mount Kenya, in Ndorobo Territory more elephant, rhino and lion. On a second expedition he hunted elephants, topi, lion, rhino, hippo and a variety of plains game. "A classic work of African big game hunting literature" with an excellent provenance, and the cleanest copy we have handled. Czech 207.
Ref:
24273
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