Powell-Cotton Major P.H.G.

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. Very good plus copy, inner hinges tender. Item #003531

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 to give a good graphic account of all of Ethiopia's terrain and wildlife. Big-game hunting for elephant, oryx, ibex and more. With the binding as issued by the Powell-Cotton Museum in Kent, England.

Price: $600.00