George Eastman Chronicles of an African Trip1 volume. First edition, privately printed 1927. Beige

1 volume. First edition, privately printed 1927.

Beige cloth-backed boards with paper spine label.

Endpapers with charts showing the route of the Safari.

A photo-journal of his African motor Safari, with excellent photographs

by George Eastman, Pomeroy, Stewart, and photos in last section by

Martin Johnson who with his wife Osa and the Akeleys who accompanied

Eastman on the trip. The safari went north from Nairobi to Lake Paradise

near Marsabit, and south to the Gurumetti River in Tanganyika.

Interesting evocation of the old-style 'cost-no-object' hunting safari.

"Written as a memento to his employees, the famous founder of

Eastman-Kodak company details his safari to East Africa, hunting

around Mt. Kenya, crossing the Guaso Nyiro River and bagging lion,

buffalo, and plains game. He was accompanied by Martin and Osa Johnson,

and Philip Percival was his professional hunter. On the second leg of his

journey, Eastman and his party traveled to the Gurumeti and Meru Rivers

of Tanganyika where they hunted buffalo, lion, and rhinoceros. Interestingly,

Eastman later returned to Africa to collect an elephant, a trophy most elusive

on his first venture. A chronicle of the second trip, however, was not published

until the 1980's." [Czech, An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game

Hunting Books, 1785 to 1950, p.55].

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