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Frederick Courteney Selous. (Illustrated by E. Caldwell). AFRICAN NATURE NOTES AND REMINISCENCES.
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Frederick Courteney Selous. (Illustrated by E. Caldwell). AFRICAN NATURE NOTES AND REMINISCENCES.
Macmillan
London
1908
1st edition reprint
230mm x 150mm x 0.9kg
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From Czech: "A wide-ranging work that discusses everything from the colouration of African big game to the extinction of some species in South Africa. There are plenty of big-game hunting episodes, which Selous uses to accent his chapters on Cape buffalo, black rhinoceros, and lion, among others. Written at a time when there was a noticeable depletion of the great game herds, he becomes almost lyrical in his longing for the old days: "but no man will ever again sit by a camp fire near one of the little rivers....eating prime pieces of fat elephant's heart, roasted on a forked stick, nor watch the great white rhinoceroses coming to drink just before dark nor lie and listen to herd after herd of elephants drinking and bathing in the river near the camp"".
Original brown cloth boards. top edge gilt. 356pp. illustrated b/w plates.
Ownership inscription front pastedown. some insect depredations to boards, notwithstanding a nice copy, tight and clean.
Our Ref. 25676
Macmillan
London
1908
1st edition reprint
230mm x 150mm x 0.9kg
To bid please visit AntiquarianAuctions.com
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Frederick Courteney Selous. (Illustrated by E. Caldwell). AFRICAN NATURE NOTES AND REMINISCENCES.
Macmillan
London
1908
1st edition reprint
230mm x 150mm x 0.9kg
To bid please visit AntiquarianAuctions.com
From Czech: "A wide-ranging work that discusses everything from the colouration of African big game to the extinction of some species in South Africa. There are plenty of big-game hunting episodes, which Selous uses to accent his chapters on Cape buffalo, black rhinoceros, and lion, among others. Written at a time when there was a noticeable depletion of the great game herds, he becomes almost lyrical in his longing for the old days: "but no man will ever again sit by a camp fire near one of the little rivers....eating prime pieces of fat elephant's heart, roasted on a forked stick, nor watch the great white rhinoceroses coming to drink just before dark nor lie and listen to herd after herd of elephants drinking and bathing in the river near the camp"".
Original brown cloth boards. top edge gilt. 356pp. illustrated b/w plates.
Ownership inscription front pastedown. some insect depredations to boards, notwithstanding a nice copy, tight and clean.
Our Ref. 25676
Macmillan
London
1908
1st edition reprint
230mm x 150mm x 0.9kg
To bid please visit AntiquarianAuctions.com
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