SPORT AND TRAVEL IN EAST AFRICA; An Account of Two Visits 1928 and 1930.
E.P. Dutton & Co. 1934 (circa nd) New York, 273pp, 37 illus, 3 color, fold-out maps. A near fine copy in very good jacket which has water stains (book is near fine). Item #003784
Compiled from the diaries of the Prince of Wales. Safaris in pursuit of the Big Five and in company with Bror Blixen von Finecke, Denys Finch-Hatton, and Pete Pearson and Capt. Ritchie and others. Chapters include:- An oryx and a long walk; Mostly an elephant and a bottle of whisky; Von Blixen and the lions; Some maxims of Finch-Hatton; Two lions and a link with Sennacherib; To the land of the pygmies; A revue in the Congo. Includes a hunt for a then world record oryx as well as an elephant near Kigoya, with an excruciating stalk of a giant tusker for very forbidding terrain.
Price: $150.00