AFRICA UNVEILED (1931) - inscribed by author

Publisher's tan cloth binding. Foreword by the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia Howard Unwin Moffat.

Inscribed by author on the front endpaper.

Contents clean. The spine of the binding has loss at the crown and rubbing at the tail.

Owen Letcher was a South African author, trophy sportsman and mining specialist. He travelled in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) and hunted along the Zambezi River. He is recorded as having bagged record trophies of Lechwe, Tsessebe, Puku and Reedbuck. He also hunted in East Africa, Uganda and along the Nile river.

He was born in England in 1884 and studied mining in Cornwall. As a young man he worked on the gold mines on the Witwatersrand. He later became the editor of the South African Mining Journal in Johannesburg. He was also responsible for establishing the Mining and Industrial Magazine of Southern Africa. He served as a scout with Jan Smuts in the German East Africa Campaign (WWI) and was a veteran of the Battle of Kilimanjaro. He was fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

This is a volume of short stories based on his experiences.