A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA; A narrative of a nine-month journey from the plains of Hawash to the snow of Simien, with a description of the game, from elephant to ibex, and notes on the manners and customs of natives.
Rowland Ward. 1902 London, 1st edn, 521pp, illus, loose fold-out map. Powell-Cotton was one of those "gentlemen of leisure" who were common adornments of the late Victorian sporting scene, hunting in Africa and Asia for a period that stretched over five decades--from 1887 to 1939. This books is the first.....