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Keagan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. 1915 London, 219pp, color fold-out map. Author traveled to eastern side of Lake Victoria to search for dinosaur bones.
Keagan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. 1915 London, 219pp, color fold-out map. Author traveled to eastern side of Lake Victoria to search for dinosaur bones.
Doubleday Page. 1900 New York, 1st edn, 2 vol, 267pp & 289pp, many illus, fold-out maps. Work on the life and adventures of the well known William Cotton Oswell. A highly important book on the exploration and discoveries of the dark continent. Oswell had a rendezvous with Livingstone and guided.....
William Heinemann. 1900 London, 1st edn, 2 vol, 267pp & 289pp, many illus, fold-out maps. This most interesting biography is the life story of the famous explorer whom Livingstone declared 'the best friend we had in Africa.' It contains letters from Oswell written from Rugby in Arnold's days, and contemporary.....
Chatto & Windus. 1983 London, 184pp, profuse b/w & color illus, photo endpapers. Ian Parker, an authority on the world's ivory trade, former game warden and hunter, brings us up-to-date on the true status of the African elephant (anno 1983). Fine photos including the famous frontis shot of Pat Auld.....
G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928 New York, 83pp, illus, photo eps, gilt lion on cover. On the Dark Continent for lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, croc, sable, lesser kudu, and Grant's gazelle. A much underrated book; Frederick B. Patterson (apparently no relative of Col Patterson of Tsavo fame) went on safari in.....
Briar Patch Press. 1986 Camden, SC, 346pp, illus, map, leatherbound. Foreword by F. C. Selous. Patterson was assigned the task of killing two man-eating lions that stopped the advance of the British Empire by terrorizing hundreds of rail workers, at Tsavo, Kenya. When it first appeared in 1907, Patterson's The.....
Macmillan & Co. 1926 London, 338pp, photos, map. Foreword by F.C. Selous. Patterson was assigned the task of killing the man-eating lions that stopped the advance of the British Empire by terrorizing hundreds of rail workers, at Tsavo, Kenya.
John Murray. 1914 London, 2nd edn, 293pp, illus, map. THE book on lions and lion hunting. Has been constantly in demand since it was published by the nimrod going to Africa to obtain himself a simba. Interestingly written and a book that will give you a lot of practical information.....
F.E. Robinson & Co. 1900 London, 1st edn, 345pp, photos, drawings. An account of two expeditions into the far interior of what is now Ethiopia and Somalia. Also a complete list of every animal known to inhabit these countries. Hunting for lion, oryx, leopard, gazelle, rhino, and elephant. Much on.....
Old Royalty Book Publishers. 1928 London, 2nd printing, 131pp, illus, fold-out map. From the author who wrote SOMALILAND. Author traveled through Africa from South to North and hunted in Kenya for elephant. This is among the scarcer of the author's hunting titles.
Amwell Press. 1985 Clinton, NJ, 374pp & 305pp, ltd to 1000 signed, numbered copies in slipcase. Reprints of the famous books by Percival who was a long time PH hunter in East Africa before World War II. In volume one Percival's observations on a lifetime spent in Africa. Includes chapters.....
Doubleday, Page and Co. 1908 New York, 1st edn, 251pp, profuse color illustrations throughout.
Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1861 New York, 281pp, frontis.
G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1926 New York, 1st edn, 233pp, illus. Saxton Pope's African hunts; lion, rhino, leopard, eland, and plains game. Czech/Africa: "Accompanied by Arthur Young and armed with yew bows, Pope hunted in Tanganyika in 1925. The pair bagged several lion near the Sironera River, as well as eland.....
G. P. Putnam & Sons. 1925 New York, 257pp, illus. Dr. Pope's book is the bowman's bible. It is an inspiring insight into the art of bow and arrow hunting by the greatest master of the sport.
Briar Patch Press. 1988 Camden, SC, small folio size, 139pp, 58 colored illus, leatherbound. Account of a lengthy hunting trip into the interior of Somaliland. A fine quality reprint with many plates depicting hunting scenes with rhinos, lions, leopards and antelopes. This edition is the only reprint ever we are.....
Hurst and Blackett, Limited. 1904 London, 1st edn, 619pp, illus, 2 color plates and 2 fold-out maps. Major Powell-Cotton was the man who shot the second largest elephant tusks ever recorded. He was a prolific writer as well as a contributor to other works (Maydon's BIG GAME SHOOTING IN AFRICA).....
Briar Patch Press. 1990 Camden, SC, 521pp, illus, fold-out map, leather-bound. Powell-Cotton was one of those "gentlemen of leisure" who were common adornments of the late Victorian sporting scene, hunting in Africa a period that stretched over five decades--from 1887 to 1939. This is the best book on Ethiopia and.....
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.....
Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd. 1937 London, 318pp, photos. The author arrived in the Sudan in 1912 and embarked on a shooting trip along the White Nile hunting elephant, hippo, lion etc. Later excursions along the Blue Nile. The reminder of the hunting covers India and Burma hunting bear, leopard.....
Books of Africa. 1982 Cape Town, 1st edn, 319pp, profuse color/b&w illus. A super book in large format on the wildlife of South Africa and the struggle for conservation. Includes the early history of conservation in Southern Africa and the main players in this fight to save the wildlife. Many.....
William Blackwood and Sons. 1884 Edinburgh, 1st edn, 386pp, foldout map. A travelogue of a journey to the Church of Scotland's mission in the interior of East Africa. Includes chapter dealing with Zanzibar, Mozambique, Delagoa Bay, The Zambesi, Shire River and describes Blantyre as it was in Malawi. Some incidents.....
Amwell Press. 1990 Clinton, NJ, 220pp, illus, ltd to 1000 signed, numbered, slipcased copies. History of East Africa, mostly Kenya as well as hunting.
William Heinemann Ltd. 1923 London, 1st edn, 191pp, photos, fold-out map. Ivory poaching and military exercises around Lake Turkana, Kenya. Harry Rayne was Walter Bell's partner in the expedition on the Pibor River along the border with Abyssinia and the Sudan in 1908-1909. Later they had a partnership in a......
Reading & Company Publishers. 1890 Philadelphia, 1st edn, 278pp, b&w photos. Author was a US commercial agent, secretary of the treasure for the Gabon. He traveled from England to West Africa where he visited Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Gold Cost, Bonny and Ferdinand Po, Cameroon and Gabon. He did.....