SHIFTS AND EXPEDIENTS OF CAMP LIFE, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION; Of Camp Life, Travel and Exploration.
Horace Cox. 1876 London, 734pp & 6pp ads, frontis, 14 plates, numerous drawings in text. A very good plus copy in original beveled green cloth. Item #006292
This work was intended as a guide for the use of travelers, settlers and explorers and is based on the authors' experiences in Africa and Australia. Topics covered range from the correct attire and the relative benefits of shoes, boots and sandals, through how to deal with your camel, poisoned arrows and how best to sketch and draw whilst travelling. A delight to delve into and packed with sketches and illustrations showing ‘the best way to…’ It gives a thought-provoking insight into the ingenuity required by latter day Victorian travelers for all manner of situations and day-to-day activities which had to be surmounted, as often the alternative was of a rather unpleasant and potentially terminal nature. Excellent detail and engravings. From the Table of Contents: I. Outfit to take abroad; II. Boats, Rafts, and Make-shift Floats; III. Working in Metals; IV. Huts and Houses; V. Extempore Bridges and Makeshifts for Crossing Rivers or Ravines; VI. Timber and its Utilization; VII. Sledges and Sledge Travelers; VIII. Boots, Shoes, and Sandals; IX. Wagons and other Wheeled Vehicles; X. Harness and Pack Animals; XI. Camels; XII. Cattle Marking; XIII. Water, and the Sap of Plants; XIV. Camp Cookery XV. Fish and Amphibious Animals; XVI. Poisoned Weapons, Arrows, Spears, &c.; XVII. Tracking, Hunting, and Trapping; XVIII. Palanquins, Stretchers, Ambulances, &c; XIX. On Sketching and Painting under the ordinary Difficulties of Travel; XX. The Estimation of Distances and Hints on Field Observing; XXI. Hints to Explorers on Collecting and Preserving Objects of Natural History; XXII. Ropes and Twine; XXIII. Bush Veterinary Surgery and Medicine; Appendix; Index. All of it accentuated with hundreds of delightful text illustrations.
Price: $750.00