Current Bid: $40
With Buyer's Premium: $46
Estimate: $60
What is a proxy bid? | Learn how to bid
15% buyer's premium on final price
Publisher's illustrated softcover binding.
150pp. Illustrated. Fold-out map at rear.
Binding sound. Contents clean except for the endpapers which are foxed.
'The ivory trade today is condemned worldwide. But in the last century hunting was regarded as manly and heroic and no one was ashamed that it contributed significantly to the economy of the Colony of Natal. R. B. Struthers, whose Hunting Journal is here published for the first time, was a typical hunter-trader. From 1852 to 1856 he covered Zululand and Tsongaland, shooting and bartering for seekoeispek and hippo and elephant ivory.
In the twentieth century his accounts of daily slaughter make somewhat chilling reading, but Pat Merrett's Introduction enables today's conservation-minded reader to place Struthers firmly in the context of colonial Natal, to experience a hunter's daily life, and to understand the role of the hunter-traders in the economy and in the destruction of game.' - editor's note
- Binding Condition: Good
- Overall Condition: Good
- Name: Rare Paper
- Contact Person: Armandt Marais
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 0741235861
- Preferred Payment Methods: EFT, Bank Deposit. For International Customers: Paypal with 6% surcharge, International Transfer
- Trade Associations: A. A. Approved
